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Den femte kvinnan

  • Henning Mankell

3.92

13 ratings

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.

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Genres

  • Kurt Wallander (fictitious person)
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • Germanic literature
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
  • Wallander, kurt (fictitious character), fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
  • Sweden, fiction
  • Kurt Wallander (Fictitious character)
  • Police
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, crime
  • Wallander, Kurt (Personnage fictif)
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Roman suédois
  • Littérature policière
  • Abusive men
  • Romans
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Wallander, Kurt (Personaje literario)
  • Novela
  • Sales personnel
  • Florists
  • Murder
  • Revenge
  • Serial murder investigation
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About the author

  • Henning Mankell

    3 February 1948 - 2015-10-05

    3.76

    154 ratings · 306 works

Editions

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    De Geus

    2001

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    17e dr.

    De Geus

    2009

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    Le Grand livre du mois

    2003

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    Vijfentwintiste druk.

    De Geus

    2015

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Éd. France loisirs

2000

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    Vintage Books

    2009

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    Tusquets

    2008

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    Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

    2011

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    Zsolnay

    December 1, 1998

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    Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co.

    2001-01

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    Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag

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    European Schoolbooks Limited

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    Seuil

    March 18, 2000

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    Seuil

    May 3, 2001

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    Planeta Dagostini

    2006

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    Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

    2004-04

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    The Harvill Press

    2001

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    New Press, Distributed by W.W. Norton

    2000

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    Unabridged edition

    Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    November 1, 2007

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    14 Tra edition

    TusQuets Ediciones

    2000

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    Unabridged edition

    Blackstone Audio, Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks

    November 1, 2007

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    Ordfront Forlag

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    1. uppl.

    Ordfronts förlag

    1996

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    Vintage, Vintage Books

    2004-04

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    Vintage

    September 5, 2002

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    New edition

    Vintage

    September 5, 2002

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    Penguin Random House

    2012

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    Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag

    2000

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    Ungekürzte Ausg.

    Dt. Taschenbuch-Verl.

    2000

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    TusQuets

    February 2005

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    Tusquets Editor

    April 2003

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    Unabridged edition

    Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    November 1, 2007

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    Random House Publishing Group

    2010