The Fifth Woman: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (Kurt Wallender Mystery) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Fifth Woman: A Kurt Wallander Mystery (Kurt Wallender Mystery) Book

A series of men who seem to have nothing in common are brutally killed--one is impaled, another starved and then strangled. We know more than the police--we know that the killer is a woman and we gradually understand some of her motivation; her much wronged mother was murdered almost by chance in a North African country--but we don't know who she is, or, for a while at least, her motives and principles of selection of her victims. Inspector Wallender finds himself investigating the case--two missing person enquiries that turn into a murder hunt--and finds himself endlessly confused by red herrings and side issues; a set of leads concerning mercenaries in the Congo of the 1960s turn out to have little to do with the case and Wallender has to waste considerable time suppressing an attempt by the far Right to turn the murders into a reason to set up vigilante justice.The Fifth Woman is a stylish police procedural which lets us see not only the leg work of investigation but also the diligence which makes effective murder possible--the killer Wallender is trying to catch is at least as good at her job of murder as he is at his of prevention. --Roz KaveneyRead More

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  • 0099445212
  • 9780099445210
  • Henning Mankell
  • 5 September 2002
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 592
  • New edition
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