num_pages: 438
description: Sixth in the 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.
language: English
title: The Fifth Woman
titlecomplete: The Fifth Woman (Kurt Wallander, #6)
characters: Per Åkeson, Lisa Holgersson, Magnus Martinsson, Kurt Wallander, Katarina Taxell, Gösta Runfeldt, Linda Wallander, Ann-Britt Höglund, Nyberg, Vanja Andersson, Karl Svedberg, Holger Eriksson
genres: Thriller, Detective, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Crime, Sweden, Nordic Noir, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 26232
places: Skåne
series: Kurt Wallander, Wallander
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 2. Platz International, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Svenska Deckarakademins pris för bästa svenska kriminalroman
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard