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When his father dies and a serial killer confounds him and his team of detectives with increasingly brutal murders, Wallander is plunged into the dark reality of his life as a cop. He must find out how a series of seemingly unrelated deaths are connected before it happens again.
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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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"Inspector Wallander is one of the most wonderful creations in contemporary crime writing" (Mark Lawson Guardian)
"Truly horrifying... The novels become a compulsion - one reads them all" (Daily Telegraph)
"A first-class police procedural" (Independent on Sunday)
"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)
"Mankell's long, subtle, involving novel could turn you to crime" (Daily Telegraph)
"Truly horrifying... The novels become a compulsion - one reads them all" (Daily Telegraph)
"A first-class police procedural" (Independent on Sunday)
"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)
"Mankell's long, subtle, involving novel could turn you to crime" (Daily Telegraph)
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1860468535
- ISBN 13 9781860468537
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages428
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