Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö wrote the ten Martin Beck novels that follow Stockholm police investigations while steadily building a critique of Swedish society. Roseanna begins with the identification of a young woman's body recovered from a canal, while The Man Who Went Up in Smoke sends Beck to investigate a disappearance in Hungary. The Laughing Policeman widens the scale to a mass shooting on a bus and the painstaking work of finding motive among many victims. Across the series, procedure, office politics and the detectives' private lives matter as much as revelation. The books are lean, realistic and socially observant, fitting Nordic noir, police procedural and classic Scandinavian crime. Read more Less
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