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.
Key facts about The Dogs of Riga
Henning Mankell wrote The Dogs of Riga, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1992. The book has 330 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781595585653 to find the main one.
The Dogs of Riga is book 2 of 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with Faceless Killers (1991).
Additionally, Henning Mankell writes Joel Gustafson and Sofia as separate series. Those series sit on our young adult and nordic noir shelves. Meanwhile, After the Fire is the latest published Henning Mankell book on file, from 2015.
About Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was a Swedish author widely credited as one of the founding figures of the Scandinavian noir crime wave that reshaped international crime fiction from the 1990s onward. See every Henning Mankell book in order.
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