Hund Von Riga

Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. Very Good. 2014. Reprint; Third Printing. Paperback. Light shelf wear, some water staining to early leaves at base of spine. ; Third printing, 2014. Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. Translated from the original Swedish by Barbara Sirges and Paul Berf. ; The Kurt Wallander Series; Vol. 2; 352 pages; German language edition of The Dogs of Riga. Sweden in the winter of 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 .