I really enjoy the Martin Beck series from Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. These are the police procedurals to end all. But what I loved about this one that I merely appreciated in the other four works in the series is how funny these are. Not in an overtly or even darkly comedic was but with the humor lightly baked in through the rage-filled observations of the detectives involved, most of whom have little idea how to interact with their fellow humans. It’s the subtleties in the […]