An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original)
An Inspector Kurt Wallander short novel by the bestselling author Henning Mankell, available in English for the first time. A Vintage Canada Original. Soon after Inspector Kurt Wallander moves into a new house with a charming garden, he makes an upsetting discovery: there is a hand--indeed,...
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An Inspector Kurt Wallander short novel by the bestselling author Henning Mankell, available in English for the first time. A Vintage Canada Original. Soon after Inspector Kurt Wallander moves into a new house with a charming garden, he makes an upsetting discovery: there is a hand--indeed, an entire corpse--buried in a shallow grave in the garden. It's the responsibility of the local police to handle the investigation...but Wallander, even though busy with another case, is soon drawn into the search for the truth about his new home, and its previous owner.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780804170642 (0804170649)
ASIN: 0804170649
Publish date: 2014-08-12
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
International,
Scandinavian Literature,
Sweden,
Swedish Literature,
Fiction
Published August 12th 2014 “It was the stillness of Autumn, the Scanian Autumn, waiting for the onset of Winter.” As I was reading this book, Goethe’s “Eine sich ereignete unerhörte Begebenheit” came to mind (I know, I know. It’s weird, but I’m just wired that way…). It means literally “An event u...
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