The Dogs of Riga

Kurt Wallander

By: Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson - translator

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett.

Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. 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 criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea, to Riga in Latvia, where he is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies.

Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues, only Wallander's obstinate desire to see that justice is done brings the truth to light.

Critic reviews

Riga is a haunted place, and Mankell describes it with the sort of creepy detail that one shudders to believe is accurate (Donna Leon)

Mankell could turn you to crime

Mankell is a powerful writer

Wallander is among the very best fictional crimebusters

Classic Wallander book

Well written with a good plot and great narrater. All those who like detective mysteries this book is for you. I enjoyed the listen from begining to end.