The Fifth Woman
A Kurt Wallander Mystery

After spending much of the summer in an exhausting search for a serial killer, Kurt Wallander gets away to Italy on an idyllic vacation with his father. He returns home to Sweden tanned, relaxed and rejuvenated, but that won't last for long. An elderly car dealer, who writes poetry about birds in hi......more

The Fifth Woman, the sixth book in the Kurt Wallander series by Henning Mankell, seems to me the best and most fully realized novel that I have read in his series thus far. It’s a serial killer book, sigh, but it complicates our view of the actual killings and isn’t just torture for torture’s sake.......more

There was a point in The Fifth Woman where I thought, "Christ, Wallander is getting preachy. I wonder if Mankell realizes it?" And then a couple of chapters later it came clear that Mankell did realize what was happening to his Ystad Detective because those closest to Wallander comment on his fondne......more

Julia - 4 stars Since the first of the year, I have been on a Kurt Wallander series binge; this being the sixth that I've read in the series. (I am reading them in order, which isn't necessary since Mankell provides very efficient, two sentence recaps that give the reader all she needs to know to car......more

Poco puedo decir a estas alturas de Mankell y de Wallander, otro librazo, no nos descubre nada nuevo, ni es el mejor libro del mundo, pero hasta la fecha, todos los libros de este autor, son de una sencillez pasmosa. La realidad de la manera más sencilla y corriente me sigue deslumbrando. Son person......more