The Dogs of Riga

The Dogs of Riga

Infobox Book |
name = The Dogs of Riga
title_orig = "Hundarna i Riga"
translator = Laurie Thompson


image_caption = British first edition cover
author = Henning Mankell
cover_artist =
country = Sweden
language = Swedish
series = Kurt Wallander #2
genre = Crime novel
publisher = Harvill Secker
pub_date = 1992 (orig.)
english_pub_date = October 2001 (Eng. trans. )
media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
pages = 326 pp (Eng. hardback trans.)
isbn = ISBN 186046839X (Eng. trans.)
preceded_by = Faceless Killers
followed_by = The White Lioness

"The Dogs of Riga" (orig. Swedish "Hundarna i Riga") is a Swedish detective mystery by Henning Mankell, set in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is the second book of the Kurt Wallander series, and was translated into English by Laurie Thompson. A movie based on the book, "The Dogs of Riga" (US title: "The Hounds of Riga") was filmed in 1995 and directed by Per Berglund.

Plot introduction

When a life raft with two dead bodies washes up on the Swedish shore, detective Kurt Wallander is led on a wild goose chase that leads him to Latvia. Much of this book is a commentary on the unstable political climates of former Soviet republics in the early 1990s, before these countries faced the period of economic boom, stability and prosperity which started in the 2000s.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113359/ IMDB entry for The Dogs of Riga]


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