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The Man with the Silver Saab by Alexander McCall Smith

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paramrb's review against another edition

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funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

slferg's review

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4.0

An enjoyable read. Ulf Varg is a detective and head of the Sensitive Crimes Unit in Malmo, Sweden. He has been having difficulties - his dog was attacked by a squirrel and nearly had his nose bitten off, the dog bled all over the seat while being taken to the vet, he used his blue lights to get through a traffic jam to get to the vet, he is not sure how Anna (a co-worker) feels about him, and there is annoying detective on his staff who's always talking about vitamins and minerals, etc. Not to mention his brother, Bjorg, is head of the Moderate Extremist Party. His car is towed to forensics because he took it by a service to have the blood cleaned up and the manager suspects his killed someone and reports it to the police. But he begins to talk through these things with his neighbor, therapist and co-worker and comes to some surprising conclusions. Not to mention the case he is working on also having a few surprises. I think I'd like to read the rest,

ronald_schoedel's review

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5.0

Alexander McCall Smith has perhaps really hit his stride with this series in this installment. I’ve liked all the other stories, and enjoy all of the characters, even the goofy Blomquist, but it was nice to see our hero resolve his long-running emotions for his coworker Anna and find, through a complete accident of happenstance, someone who is available and who happens to like politeness and kindness in a man, such as Ulf.

Can’t wait for the next Detective Varg and Juni story!

arationalvein's review against another edition

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lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

What a nice boy.

yvonne_aaf's review against another edition

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I’m quite disappointed in the fact that I didn’t like this addition to the Detective Varg series. I was enamoured with the world created in the first few books, and even though I didn’t love book 3, I still appreciated it.

I just feel like the insightful rambling of the first couple of books didn’t read the same, it felt meaningless and I just wasn’t engaged at all :/