Roseanna (Martin Beck, #1) in Play Book Tag

Jun 19, 2011 Algernon (Darth Anyan) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2011

I found out about this book through a recommendation for something similar the Henning Mankell, and it is revealing that Mankell is the one who writes the foreword of this true classic of police procedural novels.
Indeed, Kurt Wallander and Martin Beck seem cut from the same cloth, 40 years apart: middle aged, slightly depressive, with broken marriages, stubborn and unrelenting in the pursuit of justice. I'm not talking about any plagiarizing, each series stands on its own merits and has distinct ...more

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Mar 23, 2021 Karin rated it it was ok

Shelves: 20th-century, sweden, crime-fiction, 20th-century-fiction, swedish-author, mystery, book-1, series, 1960s, murder-mystery

The writing is excellent and at first I thought I might read this entire series, which is why this isn't one star--dark mysteries, including Scandinavian ones, are not my cup of tea, and when combined with an unlikable protagonist, I didn't end up liking it, but this was for a book discussion.

In a nutshell--a naked woman's body is dredged out of a beautiful lake. With no clues, other than time of year, guestimated time of death (and this is set in 1964, so using the science of that time) and the ...more

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