Cop Killer
Martin Beck series

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö wrote their Martin Beck series in the sixties and seventies. They wrote ten novels in ten years. They wrote about a time without computers and modern gadgets, but apart from those conveniences themselves, the books could have been written yesterday. These books are about ev......more

Two seemingly unrelated events happen in this book: A woman is found strangled in Anderslöv, a small village in southern Sweden, an incident that takes about half of the book to investigate, but then a cop killing takes place, and the two crimes are linked. The series is really a planned, ten-book s......more

My first thought: oh no, there's only one more book left! It's been about a year now since the events of The Locked Room. Martin Beck's life has gained some stability since he met Rhea Nielsen, the landlady of the victim in the previous novel. Now he's called to the small rural town of Anderslöv, wh......more

Qué sencillito!. Qué bueno!. Qué sabor agridulce en la boca!. Toda una crítica desencantada de la policía sueca de la época, viviendo para la galería, montando persecuciones a nivel nacional de un veinteañero que saben inocente (entre otras cosas porque saben que el crimen, en realidad, ni siquiera......more

Per y Maj son una pareja de escritores suecos que a 4 manos escribieron la serie del detective Martín Beck que comenzó con el libro mítico de Rosseane. Y que fundaron las bases de la novela negra nórdica, dándole el empuje que necesitaba para convertirse en lo que es en la actualidad. En este libro N......more