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I'm a Henning Mankell fan and have had a long time desire to visit Sweden. Therefore I get some vicarious pleasure from these books, and they are short which can be refreshing. The Dogs of Riga is, by far, my favorite. One of the main characters has moved on (did he die? I don't remember:-) anyway, long suffering Kurt Wallendar, is still around and so is his relationship with his father. The detective finally decides to do something about his health while trying to solve a mystery of how two tortured bodies, shot at close range, guessed to be from the Eastern Bloc could drift ashore in a life boat w/out any markings. I'm about halfway through it but am enjoying it immensely


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The Dogs of Riga Henning Mankell Books Reviews

It's still good but was not nearly as good as the first. It began well but halfway through it morphed into a maudlin, over the top melodrama. Too many repetitive lines of thought, ridiculous plot branches and bogged down in way too much minutia.
This is the second book in the series and the second one that I have read. With both books taking place for the most part in other than Sweden, I don't get the atmosphere that existed in the television series. I am assuming the author will hit his best stride as I continue reading. It certainly doesn't have sense of place that existed in the filmed series. I enjoy the plots and characters presented so far and will be reading the next Wallender book. So I am hooked but not a die hard fan of the writing - yet.
This is another excellent book by Henning Mankell. The author has done a superb job of crafting a mystery amid the chaos existing in the Baltic states just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

As the author further delineates the character of his protagonist, Police Inspector, Kurt Wallander. He examines the psychology of suspicion inherent in the minds of the Citizentry un-accustomed to the beginnings of a free society. He accomplishes this by examining the murder of a Police Officer who threatened to expose corruption in his native police force.

Highly recommended.
The book was enjoyable and beautifully written, but here Henning strays from his usual Kurt Wallender tale to take in the political upheaval in Latvia. The story begins on familiar territory. Two bodies wash up on a beach in Skane. Wallender struggles to identify the dead men and where they came from. Well it's Latvia. In due course Wallender travels to Riga to help solve yet another murder, a police inspector who had been sent to Sweden to help identify the initial two corpses. In Riga, the tale takes on a political scope. Because this story is not the usual Kurt Wallender mystery, although the familiar cast of characters are present, it can be a little off putting for Wallender fans. Yet the story paints a vivid portrait of life and culture in a world still controlled by the Soviet Union. This world is pretty much unknown to us in the west. But the glimpse of this collapsing Soviet hegemony makes the story well worth the read. And this is the novel that introduces the beautiful and enigmatic Baiba who becomes an important presence in subsequent novels.
In THE DOGS OF RIGA-- both four-legged and two-legged--Inspector Kurt Wallander is back with another difficult crime to solve. Two dead men, dressed to the nines, wash ashore in Ystad in a life raft. As usual, initially there are practically no clues. This crime takes Wallander away from Sweden into Latvia, a place he finds colder-- if that's possible-- than his homeland. He warms up, of course, when he falls in love with the widow of another murdered character, Major Liepa of Riga. Inspector Wallander remains the character fans of Mankell have come to love. He doesn't always get along with his father and daughter or his police superiors, he on the best of days bends the rules of conducting an investigation, on other days he breaks them, he doesn't eat well, he has trouble with the opposite sex and he's a tad hypochondriacal but still loves opera. Does he sound like someone you know?

I found myself not liking this novel as much as previous ones I have read by Mr. Mankell. It may have been that he was writing about locales and people very foreign to him. On the other hand, a B novel by this most talented of writers is better than those of dozens of his contemporaries.

As always, Mr. Mankell writes about big issues, in this instance "the revolutionary events that took place in the Baltic countries during the last year" as he says in a rare "Afterword" written in 1992. He remains one of our very best crime writers.
Having heard so much about Baiba in later Kurt Wallander books it's good to get to know her, and she is, somewhat to my surprise, an innocent, fragile person, but by no means helpless. This story is loaded with action, violence and cliffhanging danger--with many scenes of genuinely threatening, potentially lethal peril to both Kurt and Baiba. "The Dogs of Riga" would make a fantastic film! I have a friend from Latvia, and will give her a copy for Christmas. Since she, too, tells horrific stories of the Stalinist legacy of ruling commissars, I expect the perils of the plot will strike some responsive chords. Politically both of us are left-liberals, definitely not right-wing anarchists and followers of violent talk show hosts. I'm a Socialist. I can't imagine anyone except a rigid Fascist wanting to be ruled by a wealthy, power-crazed oligarchy, spied upon by the government, jailed without habeas corpus for revealing unconstitutional activities, and slandered for wanting justice and peace--which seems to be the way our own country has been going since at least 1981, and why both my friend and I are political, social and economic activists. And it's why (although the NeoCons complained) the Soviet and other Soviet bloc reformers of the late 1980s and 90s--the period of this novel--were universally referred to as "liberals".
I'm a Henning Mankell fan and have had a long time desire to visit Sweden. Therefore I get some vicarious pleasure from these books, and they are short which can be refreshing. The Dogs of Riga is, by far, my favorite. One of the main characters has moved on (did he die? I don't remember-) anyway, long suffering Kurt Wallendar, is still around and so is his relationship with his father. The detective finally decides to do something about his health while trying to solve a mystery of how two tortured bodies, shot at close range, guessed to be from the Eastern Bloc could drift ashore in a life boat w/out any markings. I'm about halfway through it but am enjoying it immensely