Kevin's review
The Dogs of Riga
by Henning Mankell
Kevin's review
The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
Kevin's review
rating:
Just finished this, after going through many of the Sjowall/Wahloo Martin Beck series.
My 3 stars is based on the translation. I found it to be alarmingly bad at some points, almost as if the translator were not a native speaker! She kept repeating the same phrases page after page...."in his mind's eye" kept popping up, off the top of my head.
I thought the story was decent, and the question of which of the 2 Latvian cops is the bad guy was a nice twist. Wallander is in the mold of the world-weary detective.
Not sure how this compares to other books in the series, or if there are better translations.......usually the Black Lizard books are top quality, so this was a disappointment.
My 3 stars is based on the translation. I found it to be alarmingly bad at some points, almost as if the translator were not a native speaker! She kept repeating the same phrases page after page...."in his mind's eye" kept popping up, off the top of my head.
I thought the story was decent, and the question of which of the 2 Latvian cops is the bad guy was a nice twist. Wallander is in the mold of the world-weary detective.
Not sure how this compares to other books in the series, or if there are better translations.......usually the Black Lizard books are top quality, so this was a disappointment.
