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Laurie Thompson lives in Wales and has edited Swedish Book Review since its launch in 1983. He has translated fifteen books from Swedish, including three Kurt Wallander mysteries. The writing is spare, the characterization deft, the atmosphere strong and the suspense overwhelming.
Mankell is a powerful writer who rapidly transports us into the world of shabby, Communist-run Latvia.
A gripping, thoughtful police procedural that engages from the first page. . . . Inspector Wallander is a thoroughly engaging and introspective creation.
The Dogs of Riga
A Kurt Wallander Mystery
Translated by Laurie Thompson
hardcover
$24.95
February, 1991. A life raft washes ashore in Skåne carrying two dead men in expensive suits, shot gangland-style. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team determine that the men were Eastern European criminals. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon plunges Wallander into an alien world of police surveillance, thinly veiled threats, and life-endangering lies.
When another murder is committed, Wallander must travel to Riga, Latvia, at the peak of the massive social and political upheaval that preceded the nation’s independence from the Soviet Union. Struggling to catch up with the culprits he pursues in this shadowy nation, Wallander finds that he must make a choice, decide who is lying and who is telling the truth, and test his bravery.
Internationally acclaimed author Henning Mankell has written nine Kurt Wallander mysteries. The books have been published in thirty-three countries and consistently top the bestseller lists in Europe, receiving major literary prizes (including the UK’s Golden Dagger for Sidetracked) and generating numerous international film and television adaptations. Born in 1948, Mankell grew up in the Swedish village of Sveg. He now divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he works as a director at Teatro Avenida.
Spring 2003
hardcover
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 336 pages
978-1-56584-787-3
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