Only his dogged, almost subconscious desire to see that justice is done brings the truth to light. The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander Series 2) 336. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues, Wallander comes to understand what it is to live in a nation in which democracy is still only a dream, where no encounter can be without political implication. There he is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Buy The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea, to Riga in Latvia, a nation experiencing the massive social and political upheaval that will lead to its independence from the Soviet Union. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. The dead men were Eastern European criminals, but what looks like a gangland hit takes on a much more sinister aspect. 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. Inspector Kurt Wallander's team at the Ystad police station face a new challenge: two corpses, frozen together in a gruesome embrace, have been washed ashore on the remote Swedish coastline. A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass: a life raft is washed up on a beach. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team at the Ystad police station in Skane, southern Sweden, receive an anonymous tip-off.
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