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A Treacherous Paradise by Henning Mankell
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller
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
$21.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller
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/Thriller | 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
Before The Frost (Kurt Wallander #9) by Henning Mankell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: Inspector Wallander Mystery
Sweden’s bestselling and award-winning author Henning Mankell joins Vintage Canada with the first Kurt and Linda Wallander Mystery.Linda Wallander is bored. Having just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. In the mea ...Show more
Before the Frost by Henning Mankell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the wood in the country land outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, handwritten corrections and amendments on every page. A string of incidents, including attacks on domestic animals, ...Show more
Before the Frost (Wallander #9) by Henning Mankell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In woodland outside Ystad, the police make a horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, the pages marked with scribbled corrections. A string of macabre incidents, including attacks on domestic animals, have been taking plac ...Show more
Before the Frost (Wallander #9) by Henning Mankell
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Linda Wallander | Reading Level: good
The leader of a religious cult in Guyana instigates a mass suicide. He succeeds in killing himself and his whole flock of worshippers, save one. One man escapes. In the wood in the country land outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude ...Show more
Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
One night Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the theatre's uppermost gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned for living on his wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be tak ...Show more
Daniel by Henning Mankell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Reading Level: good
A compelling story of a child driven to violence through loss and loneliness. Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the Kalahari Desert, determined to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career. Instead, he finds a young boy, whose tribe has be ...Show more
Depths by Henning Mankell
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Depths by Henning Mankell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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; not ...Show more