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The Dogs of Riga : a Kurt Wallander mystery / Henning Mankell ; translated by Laurie Thompson.

By:

Mankell, Henning, (1948-2015)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Vintage , 2009, c1992Description: 340 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780099535287

Other title:

Dogs of Riga

Uniform titles:

Hundarna i Riga . English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Detective and mystery stories -- -Fiction

DDC classification:

MYS MAN

LOC classification:

PT9876.23.A49 H8613 2003

Summary: On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. Thinking his work done, Wallander slips into the routine once more, until he is called suddenly to Riga and plunged into an alien world in which shadows are everywhere, everything is watched, and old regimes will do anything to stay alive.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	MYS MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		038860

Originally published: Stockholm : Ordfront, 1992.

On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over the investigation. Thinking his work done, Wallander slips into the routine once more, until he is called suddenly to Riga and plunged into an alien world in which shadows are everywhere, everything is watched, and old regimes will do anything to stay alive.

English translated from the Danish by Laurie Thompson

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