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The Dogs of Riga : A Kurt Wallander Mystery by Laurie Thompson, Henning Mankell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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February, 1991. A life raft washes ashore in Skåne carrying two dead men in expensive suits, shot gangland-style. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team determine that the men were Eastern European criminals. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon plunges Wallander into an alien world of police surveillance, thinly veiled threats, and life-endangering lies. When another murder is committed, Wallander must travel to Riga, Latvia, at the peak of the massive social and political upheaval that preceded the nation’s independence from the Soviet Union. Struggling to catch up with the culprits he pursues in this shadowy nation, Wallander finds that he must make a choice, decide who is lying and who is telling the truth, and test his bravery. From Publishers Weekly Set against the chaotic backdrop of eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mankell's intense, accomplished mystery, the last in his Kurt Wallander series (Firewall, etc.), explores one man's struggle to find truth and justice in a society increasingly bereft of either. Here the provincial Swedish detective takes on a probably fruitless task: investigating the murders of two unidentified men washed

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Author
Laurie Thompson, Henning Mankell
Publisher
New_Press_The
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9781565847873
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller
Rating
4.1 / 5 (2,640 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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