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The Dogs of Riga

Name: The Dogs of Riga
Author: Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell Original title Hundarna i Riga (Swedish, 1992)

The Dogs of Riga is a Swedish detective mystery by Henning Mankell, set in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is the second book of the Kurt Wallander series, and was translated into English by Laurie Thompson.

“He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.”

Henning Mankell book The Dogs of Riga

Source: The Dogs of Riga

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