Books: Sad cases on the steppe Sean French investigates Sweden's lugubrious sleuth

From: The Independent - London | Date: May 12, 2001| Author: Sean French | Copyright information

The Fifth Woman

by Henning Mankell, trans. Steven T Murray

Harvill, pounds 16.99, 438pp

HENNING MANKELL'S wonderfully bleak thriller is set in provincial Sweden, but this is not the world of pine forests, lakes and long summer evenings. Mankell's recurring protagonist, the middle-aged Inspector Kurt Wallander, lives in the province of Skane on the southern tip of Sweden. His home town of Ystad is further south than Copenhagen, closer to Poland than Stockholm.

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