The Dogs of Riga
Language: English
Published by The New Press / W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2003
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First American Edition, First Printing. Text And Binding In Flne Condition. Cover Show A Bit Of Shelf Wear. Inspector Kurt Wallander And His Team At The Ystad Police Station In Skåne, Southern Sweden, Receive An Anonymous Tip-Off That Comes To Pass A Few Days Later: A Life Raft Is Washed Up On A Beach. In It Are Two Men, Dressed In Expensive Suits, Shot Dead. The Dead Men Were Eastern European Criminals, Victims Of What Seems To Have Been A Gangland Hit. But As The Case Soon Takes On A Sinister Turn, Wallander Finds Himself In Riga, Latvia. There He Is Plunged Into A Frozen, Alien World Of Police Surveillance, Scarcely Veiled Threats And Lies. Only His Dogged, Almost Subconscious Desire To See Justice Done Brings The Truth To Light.
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- Title
- The Dogs of Riga
- Author
- Henning Mankell
- Publisher
- The New Press / W.W. Norton & Co., New York
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1565847873
- ISBN 13
- 9781565847873
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 2 of 10: Kurt Wallander Mysteries
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
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About the Author
Henning Mankell (1948–2015) was an internationally bestselling author who received numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association’s Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize. His Kurt Wallander mysteries are global bestsellers and have been adapted into the PBS Masterpiece Mystery! series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. The New Press has published English translations of nine of his Kurt Wallander mysteries—Faceless Killers, The Dogs of Riga, The White Lioness, Sidetracked, The Fifth Woman, One Step Behind, Firewall, The Man Who Smiled, and The Pyramid—and Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery; the novels The Return of the Dancing Master, Chronicler of the Winds, Depths, Kennedy’s Brain, The Eye of the Leopard, Italian Shoes, Daniel, and The Shadow Girls; and the nonfiction I Die, But My Memory Lives On: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project. Born in Stockholm, Mankell grew up in the Swedish village of Sveg. He divided his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he was a director at Teatro Avenida.
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