The Fifth Woman
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 337
- ISBN-13
- 9780307946669
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Fifth Woman sits between Sidetracked and One Step Behind in the Kurt Wallander series, arriving in 1996. Wallander's declining health and disillusionment continue developing across the investigation, part of the continuous arc Mankell builds book to book.
Key facts about The Fifth Woman
Henning Mankell wrote The Fifth Woman, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1996. The book has 337 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780307946669 to find the main one.
The Fifth Woman is book 6 of 11 in the Kurt Wallander series. The series has 11 published books. However, the series starts with Faceless Killers (1991).
Additionally, Henning Mankell writes Joel Gustafson and Sofia as separate series. Those series sit on our young adult and nordic noir shelves. Meanwhile, After the Fire is the latest published Henning Mankell book on file, from 2015.
About Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was a Swedish author widely credited as one of the founding figures of the Scandinavian noir crime wave that reshaped international crime fiction from the 1990s onward. See every Henning Mankell book in order.
Its place in Kurt Wallander
The Fifth Woman is book 6 in the Kurt Wallander series. It follows Sidetracked. It is followed by One Step Behind. See the full Kurt Wallander reading order.
Kurt Wallander is a middle-aged detective in the small Swedish town of Ystad, and Henning Mankell built him, deliberately, as the anti-hero of the genre he helped invent: overweight, diabetic, divorced, depressive, and quietly appalled by the racism and social fracture he sees creeping into a Sweden he no longer fully recognises. Mankell used each investigation -- into organised crime, far-right violence, trafficking, political conspiracy -- as a lens on late-20th-century Swedish anxiety about immigration, the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780307946669