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Cop Killer by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

January 3, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

I don’t know if Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö planned for there to only be ten books in the Martin Beck series but here, at book nine, things seem to be wrapping up. This book is the most self-referential of its predecessors by far, even going as far as bringing a former convict from one of the past crimes back as a minor but important character. It acknowledges the journey you go on with these people. At the heart of this one is Martin Beck. […]

Martin Beck thought about these things a lot.

Cop Killer by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

June 13, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the ninth of the Martin Beck mystery/police procedurals written by Maj Slowall and Per Wahloo in the 60s and 70s. They’ve adapted to several different films and tv shows, probably the most famous one, The Laughing Policeman written for Walter Mathau in the early 1970s. I have only read the first of the series besides this one, and they have about the same kind of meta-narrative as say the Harry Hole novels in that events do happen that carry over from book to […]

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