Cop Killer (The Martin Beck series, Book 9)
By (Author) Maj Sjwall
By (author) Per Wahl
Introduction by Lars Kepler
Book 9
HarperCollins Publishers
Fourth Estate Ltd
5th January 2012
7th April 2016
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
839.7374
Paperback
288
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
260g
The ninth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing.
Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo.
In a Swedish country town, a woman is brutally murdered and left buried in a swamp. On a quiet suburban street a midnight shootout takes place between three cops and two teenage boys. Detective Inspector Martin Beck and his partner Lennart Kollberg are called in on both cases. In the unfamiliar small-town setting, they encounter figures from their earlier cases
The godparents of Scandinavian crime fiction. Jo Nesbo
'Some of the most gripping crime fiction ever written.' Michael Connelly
If you havent come across Beck before, youre in for a treat. Guardian
I have never read a finer police story. Los Angeles Times
If you havent read Sjowall/Wahloo, start now. Sunday Telegraph
Their mysteries dont just read well; they reread even better. Witness, wife, petty cop or crook theyre all real characters even if they get just a few sentences. The plots hold, because theyre ingenious but never inhuman. New York Times
They changed the genre. Whoever is writing crime fiction after these novels is inspired by them in one way or another. Henning Mankell
Pick up one bookand you become unhinged. You want to block out a week of your life, lie to your boss, and stay in bed, gorging on one after another. Observer
Maj Sjowall is a poet. She lives in Sweden.