Die fünfte Frau

Roman Dtv -- 20366

by Henning Mankell

Paperback, 576 pages

German language

Published Jan. 22, 2000 by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag.

ISBN:: 978-3-423-20366-1
OCLC Number:: 224446185

(18 reviews)

Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. 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 is reported missing. And once again Wallander's life is on hold as he and his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders. Making progress through dogged police work and forever battling to make sense of the violence of modern Sweden, Wallander leads a massive investigation to find …

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Dustin reviewed The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell (Kurt Wallander, #6)

Review of 'The Fifth Woman' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I've already read this books some time ago but in German and I have to admit that it seems to be the only one where I remembered a lot of the story (which is also probably why I took my time to go on with the reading at first). It must have been the most impressive or distinct one from other crime stories I've read with Kurt Wallander.
The book is quite interesting even though the fact about Wallander's father is really sad. Otherwise the story is good and especially at the end I could not stop reading.