Fifth woman, paperback/henning mankell

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 Wallanders 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.