Dogs of Riga is a proper sequel to the first book in the series and an equally good work that explores the human soul through the character of Kurt Wallander. Now, Mankell gives us a glimpse into the life of a former Soviet country.This makes the mystery even more intriguing and the events in the story are surprisingly unanticipated. The case should be assigned to the police in Riga but when Wallender goes there, he finds himself wrapped up in dangerous police and political corruption. This time, the police finds two murdured bodies of Latvian criminals. The problems are still there, only bigger for him, so he continues to devote himself to his work. When it comes to his personal life, he continues to be lonely and constantly worries about his daughter and father. What does Wallander find there? Many lies and threats. While the first book of the series introduces us with Swedish society and gives us a glimpse of the life there, the second narrative moves the plot in Riga, Latvia. The second book in the series about Kurt Wallander is The Dogs of Riga. Faceless Killers is a bleak book which will intrigue you until the end. Wallander is the only one who can find the answer to it. The riddle that the author gives us in the first book is a very difficult one. The reader gets an impression that the two lives of Wallander – private and work – are constantly intermingling and probably impact one another. He is constantly affected by his private problems while he is working on this case. Nonetheless, although this is surely a lead, the reader is never sure whether Wallander is on the right track or he is wrong. The only trace Wallander has is the last word of the victim – Foreign. In the first book of the Kurt Wallander series written by Mankell, an elderly couple is brutally killed and our protagonist is the person who needs to find out the reasons for it and the people who did the murder. Naturally, Wallander wants justice and tries to gets it whenever he confronts dangerous criminals.įaceless Killers is the beginning of the journey in the world of Kurt Wallander. He may admire the opera, but he is certainly obsessed with solving crimes. However, when it comes to solving problems in the interrogation room, he knows exactly what to do in order to solve the case. These are the problems Wallander can’t handle well enough and always struggles solving. All of this makes him depressed and negatively affects him. Another character in Wallander’s life is his elderly estranged father. His wife has died and left him alone with their rebellious daughter, Linda, who attempted to make a suicide when 15. The police officer has had a near-death experience when he got stabbed with a knife while interrogating a criminal. He is working in the police force, but this person admires more the opera than guns, hence his listening opera on his way to work every day. In the series, Kurt Wallander is a police officer who constantly struggles solving his private problems. Although his other books are as well accepted as Wallander series, it was this famous character that made Mankell a bestselling author. Mankell wrote 40 books in total, including the Wallander series, which have been translated in more than 40 languages and have been sold in more than 40 million copies around the world. So, he created the police officer Kurt Wallander. Mankell was worried about the corruption and wanted to write about it. The story of Wallander was born in 1989, when Mankell returned to Sweden from Africa and found a different Swedish society than the one he had left. Recently, the world found out that Wallander is becoming an opera, as well. There are Swedish TV series, Swedish film series and British TV series based on the Mankell’s stories about Wallander, which are all famous among the viewers in Sweden and Great Britain. This fictional character has been portrayed on screen, as well, and made Mankell work on creating new stories about him for more than a decade. Henning Mankell is Swedish writer who became famous after the publication of the series that follow the life of Kurt Wallander. Especially when it comes to Mankell’s characters. However, one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Wallander is a police officer who looks like a common middle-aged man whose wife and cute children love him and support him through anything. Kurt Wallander is the protagonist in the series written by Henning Mankell. What makes every mystery good is a truly unique main character. There is nothing as good as reading an exciting mystery novel.
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