The Fifth Woman (Wallander #6)

This is the sixth in the series of novels based on Kurt Wallander, an inspector with the Swedish Police based in the relatively small town of Ystad. In this book a woman starts killing men who are connected only by the fact that they have murdered or abused women. She has been documenting such ca...

Gut mit ausgezeichnet geschriebenem EndeEndlich schafft es Mankell einem Roman ein Ende zu geben, das nicht der gro�e Showdown ist. Viel zu oft verläuft sich der schwedische Bestsellerautor in künstlich hochgepushte Dramatik, die dann unglaubwürdig wirkt. Mit diesem Buch setzt er neue Ma�stabe fü...

A woman receives a letter from Africa stating that her mother was brutally murdered when some men broke into a convent where she was staying. That murder is the catalyst for a series of brutal murders. There seems to be no connection - a retired auto dealer who writes poetry about birds, a floris...

Julia - 4 starsSince the first of the year, I have been on a Kurt Wallander series binge; this being the sixth that I've read in the series. (I am reading them in order, which isn't necessary since Mankell provides very efficient, two sentence recaps that give the reader all she needs to know to...

The Fifth Woman starts with a prologue where five women are brutally murdered by some unknown murderers in a remote place in Africa. Four of them are nuns and the fifth woman is a tourist who takes shelter with the nuns. While the nuns' death is acknowledged by the police and government, they hus...