The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka: A Reactionary Tale of Crime and…

by Joseph Škvorecký

Series: Lieutenant Boruvka (3)

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What mars this book is that Boruvka is not the narrator and it doesn't take place in Czechoslovakia. The first two books are much better. It's a rather mundane who-dunit - which the Boruvka series generally are, but without being in Boruvka's head, it's rather dull. (

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