Kurt Wallander · Book 2
The Dogs of Riga
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 330
- ISBN-13
- 9781595585653
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Dogs of Riga, the second Kurt Wallander novel, appeared in 1992. Mankell sends Wallander into a newly post-Soviet Latvia, using the investigation as a lens on regional anxiety the same way each book in the series uses crime to comment on Swedish society.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
The Dogs of Riga is book 2 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows Faceless Killers. It is followed by The White Lioness. See the full Kurt Wallander reading order.
Kurt Wallander is a middle-aged detective in the small Swedish town of Ystad, and Henning Mankell built him, deliberately, as the anti-hero of the genre he helped invent: overweight, diabetic, divorced, depressive, and quietly appalled by the racism and social fracture he sees creeping into a Sweden he no longer fully recognises. Mankell used each investigation -- into organised crime, far-right violence, trafficking, political conspiracy -- as a lens on late-20th-century Swedish anxiety about immigration, the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781595585653