Die fünfte Frau
Subtitle: Roman
By: Henning Mankell ; Deutch von Wolfgang Butt
Edition: Ungekürzte Ausg.
Series: Dtv -- 20366
Publisher: Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: München
Language: ger
Number of pages: 563
ISBN-13: 9783423203661
Subjects: Abusive men; Murder; Police; Florists; Sales personnel; Kurt Wallander (Fictitious character); Fiction
Work titles: Femte kvinnan
Description: Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. And once again Wallander's life is on hold as he and his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders. Making progress through dogged police work and forever battling to make sense of the violence of modern Sweden, Wallander leads a massive investigation to find a killer whose crimes are the product of new realities that make him despair.
Notes: Original title in Swedish :Den femte kvinnan.  Translated into German by Wolfgang Butt.

Text in German.