Cop Killer: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (Audiobook)

from tixylix

I enjoyed the 9th Martin Beck novel. The story touches on issues of the time which are still relevant today: should policeman carry loaded weapons? If they do, are injuries and deaths more likely to occur by accident or design? The plot revolves around the murder of a woman. There are two likely ...

from reading_fox

Bland Not a lot to say about this one. The plot is fairly dull, a women is reported missing, and eventually her body is found. Martin Beck having narrowly avoided promotion travels out from Stockhom to the peaceful countryside to see if he can find the killer. The obvious supect would be the now ...

from bnielsen

November 1973. Martin Beck kaldes til Trelleborg af Hergott Glad for at hjælpe med efterforskningen af en kvinde, Sigrid Mård, 38 år, der er forsvundet. Folke Bengtsson er for nogle år siden løsladt for Roseanne-mordet og bor i nærheden. Både ham og Sigrids mand, Kaptajn Mård, er nemme mistænkte....

from Algybama

Not an exciting novel by any means. The police procedural stuff only gets good near the end. Read it for the dialogue and the entertaining social critique. There are also some very beautiful descriptive paragraphs.

from CBJames

Who is the cop killer? Cop Killer, the ninth volume in The Story of A Crime series, starts with an investigation that takes police detective Martin Beck out of Stockholm to a small town on Sweden's southernmost coast. There he befriends the head of the local police department, a bachelor who live...