The Dogs of Riga, Hanning Mankell
The Dogs of Riga, Hanning Mankell
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The Dogs of Riga
A Kurt Wallander Mystery

Author: Hanning Mankell

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 10 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006


Synopsis

On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. Thinking his work done, Wallander slips into the routine once more, until he is called suddenly to Riga and plunged into an alien world in which shadows are everywhere, everything is watched, and old regimes will do anything to stay alive.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on December 01, 2009

Poor old Kurt Wallander. I just want to buy the guy a beer and tell him to quit being so hard on himself. The Swedish police detective isn’t faring much better in the second book of the series than he was in the first. Still lonely after his divorce and worried about his flighty daughter and elderly......more

Goodreads review by Michael on November 03, 2015

I was looking forward to reading this one because it hadn't been adapted for Kenneth Branagh's Wallander TV series, which I've been a fan of. I suppose I should have wondered instead why they'd skipped it. This one starts off ok, with an intriguing mystery of suited men, dead of gunshot wounds, adri......more

Goodreads review by Andy on June 17, 2012

I enjoyed the first Wallander book and this one starts off promising but it ultimately fizzles. The set up rapidly takes us through some standard police procedural but after a few reveals it switches focus to a new, seemingly unrelated crime. Wallander is promptly sent to Riga in Latvia and for much......more

Goodreads review by Dave on November 05, 2020

I gave this three stars and that seems to be about right, though I will read more in this series featuring everyday provincial Swedish detective Kurt Wallender, a kind of dour and dumpy but somehow likeable guy. He's Detective Everyman--middle-aged, just dumped by his wife, estranged for his flighty......more

Goodreads review by Charlie Parker on December 16, 2022

Los perros de Riga Segunda novela de la serie Wallander publicada en 1992. Escrita durante el año anterior, está influenciada por el derrumbamiento de los regímenes comunistas que se estaban produciendo al mismo tiempo. Seguramente ese sería el motivo de localizar la historia en Riga, capital de Leto......more