Grace ist genial. Ihr Job: Meisterdiebin. Ihre Beute: Luxusgüter. Ihre Opfer: Die Reichen und Schönen von Australiens Küstenstädten. Identitäten streift sie ab wie Perücken, falsche Papiere zückt sie ebenso schnell wie erfundene Vergangenheiten. Was sie nie hatte, ist ein normales Leben. Doch ein Job in einem kleinen Antiquitätenladen in den Adelaide Hills verspricht erstmals einen Ort, den sie Zuhause nennen kann. Grace freundet sich mit der schüchternen Eigentümerin Erin Mandel an. Es läuft gut für die beiden – doch Grace weiß, dass sich so manch alter Feind gern an ihr rächen würde. Was sie nicht weiß: Auch Erin wird von einem Augenpaar verfolgt, das auf Vergeltung sinnt.
Peter Torberg Book order (chronological)






Karla's Choice
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer, John le Carré. It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall - unconfirmed and a little scandalous - that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley will soon find himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come, and strike at the heart of his greatest enemy...
Ein diskreter Spion. John le Carrés Briefe
- 784 pages
- 28 hours of reading
In "Sein letztes Meisterwerk" enthüllt John le Carré in einer faszinierenden Sammlung von Briefen seine Persönlichkeit und Gedanken. An Leser, Prominente und Familie gerichtet, zeigt er sich als spielerischer, intelligenter und eloquenter Mensch. Die Briefe bieten einen einzigartigen Einblick in sein Leben und Werk.
"Out of the secret world I once knew I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for the reality.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le CarrU's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels. From terrifying meetings with Yasser Arafat in war-torn Beirut to brilliantly observed encounters with the great figures of 20th century film, from Stanley Kubrick to Alec Guinness. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice. In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of the world's greatest writers."
A Hal Challis Investigation: Chain of Evidence
- 375 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to his boyhood home, Mawson’s Bluff in the Australian Outback, where his father is dying. There his past comes back to haunt him... and endanger his life. Meanwhile, a serial pedophile is on the loose on the Mornington Peninsula, and Sergeant Ellen Destry, who is left to head up the area’s Crime Investigation Unit, must find a little girl who was abducted from the fairgrounds at the annual Waterloo Show before it is too late. From the Hardcover edition.
The Jungle Book
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
HarperCollins is proud to present its news range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the way he…