The Dogs of Riga - Softcover

Mankell, Henning

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860469590 ISBN 13: 9781860469596

Publisher: Vintage, 2002

Synopsis

A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead.The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea to Riga in Latvia, a nation experiencing the massive social and political upheaval that will lead to its independence from the Soviet Union. There Wallander is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues , he comes to understand what it is to live in a nation in which democracy is still only a dream. Only his dogged, almost subconscious desire to se that justice is done brings the truth to light.

About this title

Review:

"Atmospheric and gripping" (Independent)

"Mankell could turn you to crime" (Daily Telegraph)

"Riga is a haunted place, and Mankell describes it with the sort of creepy detail that one shudders to believe is accurate" (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

It is winter 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team at the Ystad police station in Skane receive an anonymous tip-off.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1860469590
• ISBN 13: 9781860469596
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340