The Dogs of Riga - Henning Mankell

From the master of Scandinavian noir, a beautiful new edition of the bestselling tale rich in gritty local culture (Los Angeles Times) in the Kurt Wallander series, set in the newly post-Soviet Latvia n n nn nA life raft drifts ashore on the coast of Skåne, Sweden, carrying two dead men in expensive suits--tortured, executed, and left to the mercy of the cold Baltic Sea. Inspector Kurt Wallander takes the case, traces the victims to a ruthless network of Eastern European criminals, and hands the evidence to Major Liepa of the Riga police. When a grisly follow-up murder occurs, Wallander is pulled out of his familiar Swedish landscape and thrust into the heart of Riga--a city still raw from decades of Soviet rule, where surveillance is a reflex, corruption runs deep, and the line between ally and enemy dissolves without warning.n n nHenning Mankell brings his uncommon skill at devising dense, multilayered plots.

(The New York Times Book Review) to bear on a novel that is equal parts police procedural and Cold War thriller--taut, atmospheric, and relentlessly suspenseful. Dogs of Riga confirms Wallander's place among crime fiction's most compelling protagonists: an ordinary man doing extraordinary, dangerous work in a world that offers him no map and no guarantees. This relaunch edition presents the complete Wallander series in a bold new light, as every volume features a striking, newly commissioned cover design and a fully redesigned interior, built for a new generation of readers.n