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From the master of Scandinavian noir, a beautiful new edition of the bestselling “tale rich in gritty local culture” (Los Angeles Times) in the Kurt Wallander series, set in the newly post-Soviet Latvia
“The writing is spare, the characterization deft, the atmosphere strong and the suspense overwhelming.” —Times Literary Supplement
A life raft drifts ashore on the coast of Skåne, Sweden, carrying two dead men in expensive suits—tortured, executed, and left to the mercy of the cold Baltic Sea. Inspector Kurt Wallander takes the case, traces the victims to a ruthless network of Eastern European criminals, and hands the evidence to Major Liepa of the Riga police. When a grisly follow-up murder occurs, Wallander is pulled out of his familiar Swedish landscape and thrust into the heart of Riga—a city still raw from decades of Soviet rule, where surveillance is a reflex, corruption runs deep, and the line between ally and enemy dissolves without warning.
Henning Mankell brings his “uncommon skill at devising dense, multilayered plots.” (The New York Times Book Review) to bear on a novel that is equal parts police procedural and Cold War thriller—taut, atmospheric, and relentlessly suspenseful. Dogs of Riga confirms Wallander’s place among crime fiction’s most compelling protagonists: an ordinary man doing extraordinary, dangerous work in a world that offers him no map and no guarantees. This relaunch edition presents the complete Wallander series in a bold new light, as every volume features a striking, newly commissioned cover design and a fully redesigned interior, built for a new generation of readers.
Praise for The Dogs of Riga:
“A tale rich in gritty local culture. . . . The plot is satisfyingly seamy [and] Wallander is, as always, discombobulated and astute.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Apart from his uncommon skill at devising dense, multilayered plots, Mankell’s forte is matching mood to setting and subject.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“The writing is spare, the characterization deft, the atmosphere strong and the suspense overwhelming.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“Mankell is a powerful writer who rapidly transports us into the world of shabby, Communist-run Latvia. ”
—The Independent(London)
“A gripping, thoughtful police procedural that engages from the first page. . . . Inspector Wallander is a thoroughly engaging and introspective creation.”
—Irish Independent
Henning Mankell (1948–2015) was an internationally bestselling author who received numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association’s Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize. His Kurt Wallander mysteries are global bestsellers and have been adapted into the PBS Masterpiece Mystery! series Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh. The New Press has published English translations of nine of his Kurt Wallander mysteries—Faceless Killers, The Dogs of Riga, The White Lioness, Sidetracked, The Fifth Woman, One Step Behind, Firewall, The Man Who Smiled, and The Pyramid—and Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery; the novels The Return of the Dancing Master, Chronicler of the Winds, Depths, Kennedy’s Brain, The Eye of the Leopard, Italian Shoes, Daniel, and The Shadow Girls; and the nonfiction I Die, But My Memory Lives On: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project. Born in Stockholm, Mankell grew up in the Swedish village of Sveg. He divided his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he was a director at Teatro Avenida.