The Fifth Woman

by Henning Mankell

Paperback, 448 pages

English language

Published April 21, 2004 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.

ISBN:: 978-1-4000-3154-2

(18 reviews)

In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The only clues Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a case that will test Wallander’s strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.

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

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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.