Martin Beck Police Mystery Roseanna: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (1), Book 1, (Paperback)

from AHS-Wolfy

The Göta Canal needs dredging as it's becoming a bit of a slog for the work and pleasure boats to pass through. When a dead body of a young woman surfaces the police think they may have caught a break as the corpse is reasonably fresh and has probably only been there a few days. Hoping to discove...

from Eyejaybee

Over recent years Scandinavian crime novels have come into vogue, though I have struggled with this genre. Indeed, despite the great plaudits lauded on the likes of Steig Larsson and Jo Nesbo, I had never managed to summon the strength of spirit to finish one, and was starting to think that I cou...

from RidgewayGirl

The body is found in a canal near Lake Vattern. Martin Beck is sent from Stockholm to lead the investigation. But the body is all they have and it seems impossible to even find out who she is. Roseanna is the first in a series of books written by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall and featuring Martin Be...

from reading_fox

Dry. We are introduced to one Martin Beck a swedish homicide detective in Stockholm, with what would now be called a health problem - coffee and smokes, and a dysfunctional family. At the time this might have been novel. Now it is tedious. A woman's body is found - no ID, name or anything, not ev...

from datrappert

I used to see books in this series on my father's shelf, and now I have finally read one--or at least listened to the fine audiobook read by Tom Weiner. It's a bit hard to describe what makes the book so good. It is a police procedural, and the details of the investigation, which takes more than ...