Kurt Wallander Series: The Dogs of Riga (Series #2) (Paperback)

from majkia

When a raft holding two dead well-dressed men washes ashore in Skane, Kurt Wallander finds himself in the midst of an international mystery. Latvia? He knows nothing of Latvia, yet first finds himself partnered with a Latvian police major, and then has to travel to Riga to find the beginnings of ...

from msf59

A life-raft containing two well-dressed men, washes up on the Swedish shore. Both men have been tortured and murdered. They have been stripped of identification and their origins are unknown. Inspector Kurt Wallander is handed this difficult case. Wallander is a divorced loner, with a sharp, dedu...

from vancouverdeb

I thoroughly enjoyed this second book in the Kurt Wallender series by Henning Mankell. While I enjoyed the first novel, Faceless Murder, I found that The Dogs of Riga was even more engaging. Henning Mankell does an excellent job of setting up a dark and dreary feeling to the story. As Wallender m...

from Lman

This book, the second in the Kurt Wallander series, is as much an indictment on the society of the time as a murder mystery. Written in the era of great upheaval in the Baltic state of Latvia, a neighbour to Sweden, it tells the story of two subsequent, but linked, murder cases leading Inspector ...

from lit_chick

Two bodies, having been tortured and executed, wash up on the Swedish shoreline in a life raft. When it is determined that the raft originated from Latvia, Kurt Wallander and team host Major Karlis Leipa, the Latvian official who travels to Sweden to assist in unraveling the mystery. However, bef...