"The Dogs of Riga," a gripping crime novel by Henning Mankell, follows Swedish detective Kurt Wallander as he investigates a mysterious murder that draws him into the seedy underbelly of a foreign society. The story begins when Wallander finds the body of a man washed ashore in Sweden, leading him to uncover ties to Latvia’s tumultuous post-Soviet era. His pursuit of the truth takes him to Riga, where he confronts the complexities of crime and politics in a rapidly changing landscape.