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Title: The Ghost of Martin Beck Rises
Review: Fans of the Maj Sjowall/ Per Wahloo Martin Beck series will be right at home here in Henning Mankell's modern-day Sweden. We're on familiar turf as a tray of home-made rusks is offered to detective Kurt Wallander. (What are they, anyway?) "The Fifth Woman" is a taut, suspenseful, hard-to-put-down detective novel that combines all the best of the Sjowall/Wahloo series with an updated look at Sweden in the '90s. (Perhaps not so different from that Sweden of the '60s and '70s.) And if it's possible, readers of previous Mankells in the series will be glad to know that Mankell gets better with each novel.
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