The Dogs of Riga
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| The Dogs of Riga | |
 British first edition cover |
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| Author | Henning Mankell |
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| Original title | Hundarna i Riga |
| Translator | Laurie Thompson |
| Country | Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
| Series | Kurt Wallander #2 |
| Genre(s) | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Harvill Secker |
| Publication date | 1992 (orig.) |
| Published in English |
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, The Dogs of Riga (US title: The Hounds of Riga) was filmed after the book in 1995, directed by Per Berglund.
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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.
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