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The Fifth Woman
Kurt Wallander (Related to this series)
- Author
- Henning Mankell
- Narrator
- Sean Barrett
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 4 November 2010
- Run Time
- 14 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett.
Four nuns and a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa. A year later, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher and 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 a link between the series of vicious murders.
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked.
Critics Review
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Inspector Wallander is one of the most wonderful creations in contemporary crime writing
Guardian
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Truly horrifying... The novels become a compulsion - one reads them all
Daily Telegraph
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A first-class police procedural
Independent on Sunday
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The real test of thrillers of this kind is whether you want to spend more time in the detective's company. I certainly do
Independent
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Mankell's long, subtle, involving novel could turn you to crime
Daily Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Henning Mankell
- Narrator
- Sean Barrett
- Duration
- 14 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 November 2010
- ISBN
- 9781407052205
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Fiction in translation, Crime and mystery: police procedural
Synopsis
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett.Four nuns and a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa. A year later, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher and 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 a link between the series of vicious murders.Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked.
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