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The Fifth Woman

Four nuns and a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa. A year later, Inspector Kurt Wallander invesigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher and discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then, another man is reported missing.



Once again Wallander's life is put on hold as he and his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders.



Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked.

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