Kurt Wallander · Book 6
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.
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