The Fifth Woman
1-86046-854-3 (Eng. trans.)OCLC 59544856 Preceded by Sidetracked Followed by One Step Behind Novels Adaptations
1966 crime novel by Henning Mankell
The Fifth Woman (original: Den femte kvinnan; 1996) is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the sixth in his acclaimed Inspector Wallander series.
Synopsis
A sadistic serial killer has been preying on men, beginning with a retired car salesman whose interests appear to be limited to bird watching and poetry and whose body was discovered in a punji stick pit; and continuing with a flower shop manager, found starved and garrotted in the woods. Wallander soon realises both men have a past record of violence towards women, and after another man is drowned in a lake, he goes on the hunt for an avenging angel...
Adaptations
In 2002, The Fifth Woman was adapted by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television into a four-part television miniseries, starring Rolf Lassgård as Wallander. British broadcaster BBC commissioned a 90-minute adaptation for its Wallander television series starring Kenneth Branagh. The episode was broadcast in January 2010.
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Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell
- Faceless Killers
- The Dogs of Riga
- The White Lioness
- The Man Who Smiled
- Sidetracked
- The Fifth Woman
- One Step Behind
- Firewall
- The Pyramid
- An Event in Autumn
- Before the Frost
- The Troubled Man
- Swedish film series
- Swedish TV series
- British TV series
- Young Wallander
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