The Fifth Woman: Kurt Wallander - Softcover
Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome. 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.
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A series of men who seem to have nothing in common are brutally killed--one is impaled, another starved and then strangled. We know more than the police--we know that the killer is a woman and we gradually understand some of her motivation; her much wronged mother was murdered almost by chance in a North African country--but we don't know who she is, or, for a while at least, her motives and principles of selection of her victims. Inspector Wallender finds himself investigating the case--two missing person enquiries that turn into a murder hunt--and finds himself endlessly confused by red herrings and side issues; a set of leads concerning mercenaries in the Congo of the 1960s turn out to have little to do with the case and Wallender has to waste considerable time suppressing an attempt by the far Right to turn the murders into a reason to set up vigilante justice.The Fifth Woman is a stylish police procedural which lets us see not only the leg work of investigation but also the diligence which makes effective murder possible--the killer Wallender is trying to catch is at least as good at her job of murder as he is at his of prevention. --Roz Kaveney
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"Sweden's lord of criminal misrule" (Independent)
"The novels become a compulsion - one reads them all" (Daily Telegraph)
"Mankell is one of the most ingenious crime writers around. Highly recommended" (Observer)
"By far the best writer of police mysteries today" (Michael Ondaatje)
"The real test of thrillers of this kind is whether you want to spend more time in the detective's company. I certainly do" (Sean French Independent)
"The novels become a compulsion - one reads them all" (Daily Telegraph)
"Mankell is one of the most ingenious crime writers around. Highly recommended" (Observer)
"By far the best writer of police mysteries today" (Michael Ondaatje)
"The real test of thrillers of this kind is whether you want to spend more time in the detective's company. I certainly do" (Sean French Independent)
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0099535297
- ISBN 13 9780099535294
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages592
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