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Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | 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
Quicksand by Henning Mankell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
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
Quicksand by Henning Mankell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However, Quicksandis not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life, and about the people who have given me new pe ...Show more
The Dogs of Riga: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | 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 Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Reading Level: General Adult
The best-selling, award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers an incredible stand-alone masterpiece: a bone-chilling mystery that spans two centuries and four continents. In the far north of Sweden a small, quiet village has been almost entirely wiped out by a mass murderer. The only cl ...Show more
The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander #4) by Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser.
The New York Times called Henning Mankell "that unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature and who has broken out as an international phenomenon," and his brilliant creation Detective Kurt Wallander is worthy of comparison to Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's Martin Beck and ...Show more
The Pyramid by Henning Mankell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Reading Level: very good
When Kurt Wallander first appeared in "Faceless Killers" back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. "The Pyramid" chronicles the events that led him to such a ...Show more
The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases by Henning Mankell
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Kurt Wallander's beginnings. Revealing a side of Wallander that we have never seen, the long stories collected in" The Pyramid" are vintage Mankell. Here, we see Wallander on his homicide first case as a twe ...Show more
The Rock Blaster by Henning Mankell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
Henning Mankell's first novel, never before released in English, explores the reflections of a working class man who has struggled against the constraints of his station for his entire life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. ...Show more
The Shadow Girls by Henning Mankell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Reading Level: very good
Tea-Bag, a young African girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape the horrors of human trafficking. Leyla has come with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home. Meanwh ...Show more