The Fifth WomanFifth 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 Wallanders 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 11 |
Section 3 | 37 |
Section 4 | 53 |
Section 5 | 69 |
Section 6 | 83 |
Section 7 | 97 |
Section 8 | 111 |
Section 19 | 319 |
Section 20 | 355 |
Section 21 | 374 |
Section 22 | 393 |
Section 23 | 412 |
Section 24 | 430 |
Section 25 | 449 |
Section 26 | 469 |
Section 9 | 126 |
Section 10 | 156 |
Section 11 | 187 |
Section 12 | 202 |
Section 13 | 219 |
Section 14 | 235 |
Section 15 | 251 |
Section 16 | 268 |
Section 17 | 284 |
Section 18 | 302 |
Section 27 | 487 |
Section 28 | 507 |
Section 29 | 525 |
Section 30 | 547 |
Section 31 | 570 |
Section 32 | 589 |
Section 33 | 610 |
Section 34 | 633 |
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Åkeson Älmhult answer Baiba Bergstrand Birch Björk Borås called Chief Holgersson coffee decided desk diary ditch door drove Ebba Ekberg Eugen Blomberg everything father feeling flat gave Gävle going gone Gösta Runfeldt Hamrén Hansson happened Harald Berggren Hässleholm heard HENNING MANKELL Höglund Holger Eriksson Höör inside investigation Katarina Taxell killed killer Krista Haberman Kurt Wallander lander Linda lived Lödinge Lund Malmö Martinsson maternity ward Melander mercenaries morning mother murder never night Nyberg Östersund photograph question realised remember seemed shook his head Skåne someone started Stockholm stood stopped suddenly suitcase Svedberg Svenstavik Sweden talk Taxell's tell There's thing told took trip Tyrén Vanja Andersson wait walked Wallander asked Wallander felt Wallander knew Wallander looked Wallander nodded Wallander replied Wallander saw Wallander thought Wallander's What's woman wondered Ylva Ystad Yvonne Ander