Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

The fifth woman / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray.

by Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015.

View full image

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2004.

Police -- Sweden -- Fiction.

Serial murder investigation -- Fiction.

Revenge -- Fiction.

Abusive men -- Fiction.

Sweden -- Fiction.

Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015. Kurt Wallander mysteries ; 6.

9781400031542 (trade pbk.)

1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.

437 p. : map ; 22 cm.

First published in Sweden as Den femte kvinnan in 1996 by Ordfront Forlag. English translation copyright 2000.

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 Wallanders 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.

Mystery fiction.

Swedish fiction -- Translations into English.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal