by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
4,5 stars! This felt like a real investigation, with no extraordinary breakouts, only hard work and no technology. I quite liked Martin Beck and I will continue with number 2 in the series!
Featuring police detective, Martin Beck, on the hunt for the killer of a young woman named Roseanna who has been found dead in a canal after being raped and murdered. Time elapses with no leads and the case goes cold until, via Interpol, she is identified as an American tourist who had been a passen...
"He looked tired and his sunburned skin seemed yellowish in the gray light. His face was lean with a broad forehead and a strong jaw. His mouth, under his short, straight nose, was thin and wide with two deep lines near the corners. When he smiled, you could see his healthy, white teeth. His dark h...
(I am lowering my rating on this to 3, to allow me to lower my rating on the second book, so that I can properly emphasis how good the third book actually is...)
Quite outstanding, and I can see how (written in 1965) this was a game-changer for the genre.BTW -- let me state here that these five-stars are to be measured, as I suppose with my other ratings, only in the context of the genre in which the book was written -- not as compared, say, to Pynchon or Vi...
roseanna is a melancholy novel: i felt sad for the victim, and sad for the detectives (especially martin beck - the titular detective of the series) investigating her death. as they sought to discover the mystery behind her death and found out more about her, i felt worse and worse. i think the nove...
I suddenly dawned on me, as I was wondering why nothing happens in this plotless book, that it is a police prodecural. While I do actually love books where nothing happens, I long time ago drew the line at police prodedurals after I read a few Ed McBains. I did, however, before I wrote this, look up...
This is the first in the ten book Martin Beck series. Bleak and grim for the most part. They couldn’t resist switching to a tense thriller for the last two chapters. A friend gave us the entire set of ten – so I will be reading the rest soon. This will be the last book I complete for 2010.This book ...
blurbs - This is a daring way to write a crime novel, never mind ten of them. It’s a genre that normally demands a constantly evolving narrative that starts off at a frantic pace and then gets faster. One of the features of Roseanna is how frustrating it is for police to communicate when they are se...
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