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The Dogs of Riga by Mankell, Henning; Thompson, Laurie is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Mankell, Henning; Thompson, Laurie
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
1992
Language
EN
ISBN
9781407017754
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Rating
3.72 / 5 (209 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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