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Sep 30, 2008 | ISBN 9780307390462 Buy
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Sep 30, 2008 | ISBN 9780307390462
Oct 27, 2010 | ISBN 9780307772817
With a New Introduction by Henning Mankell. The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (“the best writers of police procedurals in the world”), finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler.On a July afternoon, a young woman’s body is dredged from Sweden’s beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a murderer with a distinctive–indeed, terrifying–sense of propriety.
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, her husband and coauthor, wrote ten Martin Beck mysteries. Mr Wahlöö, who died in 1975,… More about Maj Sjowall
Born in 1926, Per Wahlöö was a Swedish writer and journalist who, alongside his own novels, collaborated with his wife,… More about Per Wahloo
“A modern classic. . . . Lively, stylistically taut . . . Sjöwall and Wahlöö changed the genre.” —Henning Mankell, from the introduction “A wonderfully tough and pleasantly chilling tale . . . told without a wasted word.”—Harper’s“One of the most authentic, gripping and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished.”—Michael Connelly“Superb suspense. . . . Let no mystery authority worth the appellation miss Roseanna. . . . I have never read a finer police story.” —Dorothy B. Hughes, Los Angeles Times“The first great series of police thriller….Truly exciting.”—Michael Ondaatje “Sjöwall and Wahlöö are the best writers of police procedural in the world.”—Birmingham Post
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