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Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad has his summer vacation abruptly terminated when the top brass at the foreign office pack him off to Budapest to search for Alf Matsson, a well-known Swedish journalist who has vanished. Beck investigates viperous Eastern European underworld figures and--at the risk of his life--stumbles upon the international racket in which Matsson was involved. With the coolly efficient local police on his side...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Second Vintage Crime / Black Lizard edition.
Language
English
Description
"Seventh novel in the Martin Beck mystery series," together known as "The story of crime." "The gruesome murder of a police captain in his hospital room reveals the unsavory history of a man who spent forty years practicing a horrible blend of strongarm police work and sheer brutality. Martin Beck and his colleagues feverishly comb Stockholm for the murderer, a demented and deadly rifleman, who has plans for even more chaos. As the tension builds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
2nd Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Language
English
Description
"The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sj�owall and Per Wahl�o�o, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career. The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
2nd Vintage crime/Black Lizard edition.
Language
English
Description
With a New Introduction by Arne Dahl. When Viktor Palmgren, a powerful Swedish industrialist is shot during his after-dinner speech in the luxurious Hotel Savoy, it sends a shiver down the spine of the international money markets and puts the tiny town of Malmo on edge. However, no one in the restaurant, not even the victim before his death, was able to identify the gunman, and local police were sheepishly baffled. Beck takes over the scene and finds...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Second Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition.
Language
English
Description
In a country town, a woman is brutally murdered and left buried in a swamp. There are two main suspects: her closest neighbor and her ex-husband. Meanwhile, on a quiet suburban street a midnight shootout takes place between three cops and two teenage boys. Dead, one cop and one kid. Wounded, two cops. Escaped, one kid. Martin Beck and his partner Lenart Kollberg are called in to investigate. As Beck digs deeper into the murky waters of the young girls...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
�2010
Language
English
Description
"The final novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sj�owall and Per Wahl�o�o is a masterful, all consuming tale that rushes toward a thrilling, unexpected climax. An American senator is visiting Stockholm and Martin Beck must lead a team to protect him from an international gang of terrorists. However, in the midst of the fervor created by the diplomatic visit, a young, peace-loving woman is accused of robbing a bank. Beck is determined...
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