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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400031540

ISBN-139781400031542

eBay Product ID (ePID)4663453

Product Key Features

Book TitleFifth Woman

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, Mystery & Detective / General, Noir

Publication Year2004

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorHenning Mankell

Book SeriesKurt Wallander Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.5 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-069059

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Exquisite. . . . Something to look forward to." - - Los Angeles Times Book Review "A scary and cunning tale. . . . Here is a police procedural in which the main procedure is thought." - Rocky Mountain News "Achieves a deeply satisfying density of plot and characterization." - The Baltimore Sun "A marvelously told mystery. . . . You can't put it down, but you won't want to finish it either." - Austin American Statesman, "Exquisite. . . . Something to look forward to."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "A scary and cunning tale. . . . Here is a police procedural in which the main procedure is thought." -Rocky Mountain News "Achieves a deeply satisfying density of plot and characterization." -The Baltimore Sun "A marvelously told mystery. . . . You can't put it down, but you won't want to finish it either." -Austin American Statesman

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number6

Dewey Decimal839.738

SynopsisFrom the dean of Scandinavian noir, the fifth riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh. 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., The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander - From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the sixth riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series. 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., The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander * From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the sixth riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series. 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.

LC Classification NumberPT9876.23.A49F4613