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Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell (tr from Swedish Laurie Thompson))
$34.95 AUD
Category: Crime
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 ...Show more
One Step Behind: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
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
One Step Behind (Wallander #7) by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is it the same killer, and what could the connection be? ...Show more
Quicksand by Henning Mankell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death, but about what it means to be human. Mankell writes about love and jealousy, courage and fear, about what it is like to live with a fatal illness. This book is also about why the cave painters ...Show more
Roseanna (Martin Beck #1) by Maj Sjöwall; Per Wahlöö; Henning Mankell (Introduction by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Martin Beck Police Mystery Ser.
With a New Introduction by Henning Mankell. The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sj wall and Per Wahl ("the best writers of police procedurals in the world"), finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler.On a ...Show more
Sidetracked: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | 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
Sidetracked (Wallander #5) by Henning Mankell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Crime
Midsummer approaches, and 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 summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a ...Show more
The Dogs of Riga: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
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 Dogs of Riga (Wallander #2) by Henning Mankell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Crime
Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be ...Show more
The Eye of the Leopard by Henning Mankell
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime
Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His childhood was unsettled, an alcoholic father, and a mother disappeared - only alive in old photographs. His adolescence was no easier as he lost both his best friend and his lover tragically. Alone and adrift, as a young man his only desire was to ful ...Show more
The Fifth Woman (Kurt Wallander #6) by Henning Mankell
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | 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
The Fifth Woman (Wallander #6) by Henning Mankell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Kurt Wallander 6
Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future ...Show more