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    <body><![CDATA[One of the pioneering Inspector Martin Beck series, this is my favorite so far (I have read 6 of the 9 titles.) In it, Beck and his team have to stop a man who is sexually assaulting and then killing little girls in Stockholm's parks.They also have a string of unnecessarily brutal muggings to deal w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66974179">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A naked woman was dredged up from the bottom of Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern one July day. Where had she come from? How had she got there? And why? . . . a rash of brutal muggings and child sex-murders with the elusive mugger perhaps the only person in Stockholm to have seen the murderer . . . th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29707927">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Do you ever have one of those nights where you wake up and realize that you're not going back to sleep? And then you look at the clock and it isn't even 12 yet? This is a good book to have on your nightstand. Deeply satisfying Swedish detective novel featuring a hardboiled detective who prefers juic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78179493">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this series in the sixties and seventies.  Over the years I had re-read the first of the series, Roseanna, several times - I consider it one of the all time great mystery novels.  Now, I'm re-reading the entire series.  This, the third Martin Beck, is a masterful depiction of policing. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60662642">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[excellent entry in the martin beck series, but also profoundly depressing.]]></body>
    
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