The Fifth Woman – Henning Mankell
In the autumn of 1994, Inspector Kurt Wallander returns to the town of Ystad in southern Sweden after a rare holiday in Rome with his father. Almost immediately, he is confronted with a horrifying murder. A retired car dealer and amateur poet, a respected elderly man, is found dead in a ditch on his property, impaled on sharpened bamboo stakes that had been set as a trap. Soon afterward, another man disappears and is later found murdered in an equally calculated and brutal way.
The Fifth Woman, the sixth novel in Henning Mankell’s acclaimed Wallander series, follows the inspector and his team as they try to understand what connects the victims. As they investigate, they uncover hidden histories of violence and cruelty in the victims’ pasts, and they begin to suspect that the killer may be a woman seeking revenge for crimes that were never punished.
The investigation is slow and difficult, and Wallander is under great pressure, both professionally and personally. He struggles with exhaustion, loneliness and his complicated relationship with his aging father, and he worries about the growing violence and loss of trust he sees in Swedish society, where some citizens are forming vigilante groups and taking the law into their own hands.
Mankell combines a tense, intricate mystery with social commentary, exploring justice, violence against women, revenge and the moral dilemmas faced by those who uphold the law.
Atmospheric and thought-provoking, The Fifth Woman is a gripping read for fans of Scandinavian crime fiction. It can be read on its own. It contains graphic violence and themes of abuse.
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