''The Fifth Woman'' (original: ''Den femte kvinnan''; 1996) is a crime novel by

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Henning Mankell Henning Georg Mankell (; 3February 19485October 2015) was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number ...

, the sixth in his acclaimed Inspector Wallander series.

Synopsis

A sadistic

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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

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pit; and continuing with a

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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

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as Wallander. British broadcaster

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