The Fifth Woman

Review "[The Fifth Woman's] intricate plotting, chilling psychological divination, and thrilling police procedural are all seamlessly translated...Highly recommended."-- "Library Journal""A marvelously told mystery...You can't put it down, but you won't want to finish it either."-- "Austin American-Statesman""A scary and cunning tale...Here is a police procedural in which the main procedure is thought."-- "Rocky Mountain News""Achieves a deeply satisfying density of plot and characterization."-- "Baltimore Sun""Captures listeners with a suspenseful plot and an evocative setting...Hill's narration lends suspense, humor, and terrific character delineation of Wallander and his cohorts."-- "AudioFile" Product Description In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled by two strange and grotesque murders. His only clues are a skull, a diary, a photo, and an elusive connection to the unsolved murder of the fifth woman. About the Author Henning Mankell (1948-2015) was Sweden's most-read author worldwide. His novels, which include the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries, have been translated into thirty-seven languages with more than thirty million copies in print worldwide. He has received the Crime Writers' Association's Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Tolerance Prize and has been a three-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize. Dick Hill, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, is one of the most awarded narrators in the business, having earned several Audie Awards and thirty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. In addition to narrating, he has both acted in and written for the theater. From AudioFile Dick Hill's presentation of this Swedish police procedural featuring Detective Kurt Wallander captures listeners with a suspenseful plot and an evocative setting. As Wallander searches for a brutally inventive killer, Hill smoothly imparts the uncommon place and character names. Mankell's emphasis on police procedures requires endless shop meetings. To these Hill's narration lends suspense, humor, and terrific character delineation of Wallander and his cohorts���right down to the cold-stricken voice of one policeman, which gradually improves. Hill's engrossing voice weaves the growing terror of a captive florist, the gathering of a peculiar women's support group, the tension of a hospital break-in, and the horror of the serial murders���which seem completely unrelated until Wallander's brooding nature ties together the clues. D.P.D. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine