The Dogs of Riga

In this police novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander of Ystad investigates when a life raft carrying two dead men in formal clothes washes onto a Swedish beach. The victims prove to be Latvian, and the case pulls Wallander from Scanian routine into Riga, where a local detective has been working a related crime and where post-Soviet police, gangs, and government offices do not share a single loyalty. Winter weather, language barriers, and official obstruction slow the inquiry. The book is a crime novel about a Swedish detective abroad, not a political history of Latvia.

Bound in wrap-around colour blocked and printed textured paper. Red slipcase with die-cut circle on front.