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A Treacherous Paradise by Henning Mankell
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
In 1904 Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. On the voyage she finds love in the form of the ship's mate, whom she marries. But disaster strikes when her husband is struck down by a fatal illness while the ship is docked ...Show more
A Treacherous Paradise by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity. Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. Jumping ...Show more
An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Some cases aren't as cold as you'd think Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden - the skeleton of a middle-aged woman. As police officers comb the property, Wallander attemp ...Show more
An Event in Autumn (Kurt Wallander #11) by Henning Mankell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
Some cases aren't as cold as you'd think Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden - the skeleton of a middle-aged woman. As police officers comb the property, Wallande ...Show more
Depths by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
It is October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement ...Show more
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence b ...Show more
Firewall (Kurt Wallander #8) by Henning Mankell; Ebba Segerberg (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
After a death, a brutal murder and a blackout which covers half the country, Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective.
Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure stru ...Show more
One Step Behind: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
On Midsummer s Eve, three friends gather in a secluded meadow in Sweden. In the still-sun-lit northern night, they don costumes and begin to role play. But an uninvited guest soon brings their performance to a gruesome conclusion. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses ...Show more
Sidetracked: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander
Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his restful summer plans are thrown into disarray when a teenage girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former ...Show more
The Dogs of Riga: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
February, 1991. A life raft washes ashore in Skane carrying two dead men in expensive suits, shot gangland-style. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team determine that the men were Eastern European criminals. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon plunges Wallander into an alien worl ...Show more
The Fifth Woman (Kurt Wallander #6) by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander
Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man i ...Show more