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Another Time, Another Life by Leif G. W. Persson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
A moment in history triggers a wide spiralling conspiracy spanning nearly twenty years. From the occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm by terrorists in 1975, to 1989 and the unsolved murder of a civil servant, then to 1999 when Swedish intelligence investigates the newly instated Minister o ...Show more
Another Time, Another Life: (The Story of a Crime 2) by Leif G W Persson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: The\Story of a Crime Ser.
Stockholm, 1975: Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the wounding of several others. Jump to 1989: When a Swedish civil servant is murdered, the two leading detectives on the case find their investigation hast ...Show more
Between Summer's Longing and Winter's Cold by Leif G. W. Persson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
It begins with the apparent suicide of a young American student in Stockholm. What is at first an open and shut case of suicide quickly leads to a complex web of international espionage, treachery and ultimately the legendary murder of the Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme. Dogged by the incompetence o ...Show more
Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: (The Story of a Crime 1) by Leif G W Persson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: The Story of a Crime
Stockholm. The dead of winter. The temperature is already well below freezing. A young American dies, falling from a tall building. It appears to be a casual, self-inflicted death. It should be an open-and-shut case. But when Superintendent Lars Martin Johansson begins to delve beneath the layers of co ...Show more
Falling Freely, as If in a Dream by Leif G. W. Persson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction - and one of the best crime writers of our time - a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal I ...Show more
Falling Freely, as If in a Dream: (The Story of a Crime 3) by Leif G W Persson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Story of a Crime
From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction - and one of the best crime writers of our time-a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Inv ...Show more
He Who Kills the Dragon by Leif G. W. Persson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
In this second installment of Persson's trilogy of police procedurals featuring the "small, fat and primitive" Evert Backstrom, the grand master's most appallingly repulsive (and funniest) character is finally given his fifteen minutes of fame by way of his patented combination of laziness, luck, and an ...Show more
Linda, as in the Linda Murder by Leif G. W. Persson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
Winner of the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel 2014 In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Bäckström is unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation. Egotisti ...Show more
Linda, as in the Linda Murder by Leif G. W. Persson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Backstrom is unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation. Egotistical, vain and utterly prejudiced against everything, Backstropm is a ...Show more
The Dying Detective by Leif G. W. Persson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
Retired Chief of the National Crime Police and Swedish Security Service Lars Martin Johansson has just suffered a stroke. He is paying the price for a life of excess - stress, good food and fine wine. With his dangerously high blood pressure, his heart could fail at the slightest excitement. In the hosp ...Show more
The Dying Detective by Leif G. W. Persson
$33.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
Retired Chief of the National Crime Police and Swedish Security Service Lars Martin Johansson has just suffered a stroke. He is paying the price for a life of excess - stress, good food and fine wine. With his dangerously high blood pressure, his heart could fail at the slightest excitement. In the hosp ...Show more
The Sword of Justice Backstrom #3 by Leif G. W. Persson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Backstrom
When gangster lawyer Thomas Eriksson, renowned defender of the guilty, is found brutally murdered in his own home the police face a rare problem. Finding a suspect isn't difficult, but narrowing down the long list of people who wanted Eriksson dead might be...High on the list is the celebrated Detective ...Show more
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