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The fifth woman a Kurt Wallander mystery

In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, while 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, for in order to solve these murders he will need to uncover their elusive connection to the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.

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  • "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 triggers 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. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly bird-watcher, he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. Once again, Wallander's life is put on hold as he and his team work tirelessly to find the link between the series of vicious murders."
  • "In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, while 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, for in order to solve these murders he will need to uncover their elusive connection to the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman."
  • "In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, while 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, for in order to solve these murders he will need to uncover their elusive connection to the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman."@en
  • "Philosophical detective Kurt Wallander and his team make connections between two particularly cruel deaths -- one of a reclusive birdwatcher and the other of an orchid florist. The Kurt Wallender mysteries are quintessential hard-boiled European police procedurals set in Skane on the southern tip of Sweden."
  • "Four nuns and a fifth women, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained trgedy triggers a cruel vengeance for these killings."@en
  • "In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered. A year later in Sweden, two baffling murders lead Inspector Kurt Wallander to investigate the unsolved murder of the fifth woman."@en
  • "Philisophical detective Kurt Wallander and his team make connections between to particulary cruel deaths-- one of a reclusive birdwatcher and the other of an orchid florist. The Kurt Wallander mysteries are quintessential hard-boiled European police procedurals set in Skane on the Southern tip of Sweden."@en

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Crime fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
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  • "The fifth woman a Kurt Wallander mystery"@en
  • "The fifth woman"@en
  • "The fifth woman"

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