The Dogs of Riga

Product Description
In this case, only Wallander's obstinate desire to see that justice is done brings the truth to light.
On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and 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.
Review
"A gripping, thoughtful police procedural that engages from the first page."-- "Irish Independent"


"A tale rich in gritty local culture...The plot is satisfyingly seamy, [and] Wallander is, as always, discombobulated and astute."-- "Los Angeles Times"


"Dick Hill's portrayal of Mankell's Swedish police detective, Kurt Wallander, is masterful...his tone darkens astutely as Wallander begins spiraling deeper into the political underworld...[An] Audiofile Best Audiobook of 2007."-- "AudioFile"


"Mankell's intense, accomplished mystery...explores one man's struggle to find truth and justice in a society increasingly bereft of either...Wallander's introspection and self-doubt make him compellingly real...riveting reading."-- "Publishers Weekly"


"The writing is spare, the characterization deft, the atmosphere strong, and the suspense overwhelming."-- "Times Literary Supplement (London) "
About the Author
Henning Mankell (1948-2015) was Sweden's most-read author worldwide. His novels, which include the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries, have been translated into thirty-seven languages with more than thirty million copies in print worldwide. He has received the Crime Writers' Association's Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize and has been a three-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR:
Laurie Thompson is the distinguished translator of novels by Henning Mankell and Hakan Nesser. He was editor of
Swedish Book Review between 1983 and 2002.


Dick Hill, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, is one of the most awarded narrators in the business, having earned several Audie Awards and thirty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. In addition to narrating, he has both acted in and written for the theater.
From AudioFile
Dick Hill's portrayal of Mankell's Swedish police detective, Kurt Wallander, is masterful. In this second book in the internationally acclaimed series, two murder victims are washed ashore in a lifeboat on the Swedish coast. Their Baltic origins lead the Swedish detective into a joint investigation with a Latvian policeman. The policeman's murder draws Wallander across the sea to a country just released from Soviet control. Hill's Latvian detectives have just enough of an accent for distinction, and his tone darkens astutely as Wallander begins spiraling deeper into the political underworld of the bewildering country he is reluctantly immersed in. The pacing as danger escalates is engrossing as the law-abiding policeman finds himself doubting, then being pursued by, former allies. D.P.D. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine--
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