The Dogs of Riga Audiobook By Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson - translator cover art

The Dogs of Riga

A Kurt Wallander Mystery

 Preview

$0.00 for first 30 days

Try for $0.00
Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts.
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
Audible Plus auto-renews for $7.95/mo after 30 days. Upgrade or cancel anytime.

The Dogs of Riga

By: Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson - translator
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Try for $0.00

$7.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $17.16

Buy for $17.16

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel
On the Swedish coastline, the bodies of two victims of grisly torture and cold execution are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain that he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. 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 is done, Wallander slips back into his routine, until he is suddenly called 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.

More mayhem? Download Faceless Killers: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (Unabridged).©1992 Henning Mankell; 2001 Laurie Thompson (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc. Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Suspenseful Crime

Critic reviews

"The writing is spare, the characterization deft, the atmosphere strong, and the suspense overwhelming." (Times Literary Supplement)
"Apart from his uncommon skill at devising dense, multilayered plots, Mankell's forte is matching mood to setting and subject." (New York Times Book Review)
"Wallander's introspection and self-doubt make him compellingly real, and his efforts to find out what happened to those men on the life raft makes for riveting reading." (Publishers Weekly)

People who viewed this also viewed...

Night Soldiers Audiobook By Alan Furst cover art
Night Soldiers By: Alan Furst
Intriguing Storyline • Gripping Plot • Excellent Narration • Complex Hero • Detailed Descriptions • Engaging Performance
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
I really love a good mystery and especially those in the Scandinavian countries and England. But seriously Wallander has to stop being sick and tired in every book. He is in his forties. I read this book out of order so I know he is moving toward diabetes but seriously take better care and find something else to work through.

Wallander-The Dogs of Riga

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Strange accents, It made Wallander sound less likeable. I didn’t care for the voice actor’s interpretation.

Strange accents

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is my second of the first three in the Henning Mankell / Kurt Wallander series. This one is actually the best of the first three by a decent margin.

I went ahead and purchased one of Audible's package deals which included the first three books in this series all at once.

As I said with my first review of "Faceless Killers", while this is definitely an improvement, it's still nothing great. Likewise, the narrator, Dick Hill was good, but he is so "white-bread", he's not the perfect fit here.

Granted, overall, this one is not bad, three Mankell / Wallander books is enough for me.

The Best of the Wallander Books I Listened to.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The narration was quite well done except for a couple of squeeky women and the story kept me interested.

Complex and intriguing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoy the Kurt Wallander mysteries. This one was was a bit, okay WAY, overwrought at times. Happy I listened to it, but it had its weaker moments.

Overwrought

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Henning Mankell at his best! You won't find a better companion on a long drive!

Great Read!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Not sure if I will follow up with other books by this author. This was an ok story & kept my interest fairly well, but just not a grabber.

Fairly Enjoyable

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Best book so far mysterious and adventurous. Got me wanting to listen to more especially on long drives

Thrilled and Hooked

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A pretty boring book made even worse by the narrator. And the Swedish police force does not exactly look intelligent from this story.

Horrible narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Good story, marred by the similarity between the characters voices.
Good story, hard to follow Because of the similarities between characters voices.

Complicated

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews