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Sverige, Trelleborg, november 1973
Martin Beck kaldes til Trelleborg af Hergott Glad for at hjælpe med efterforskningen af en kvinde, Sigrid Mård, 38 år, der er forsvundet. Folke Bengtsson er for nogle år siden løsladt for mordet på Roseanna McGraw (Roseanne-mordet) og bor i nærheden. Både
Lennart Kollberg er plaget af engang at have dræbt en kollega og bliver mere og mere led og ked ved sit arbejde, faktisk ender han med at sige op. Kollberg er gift med Gun på syvende år og har to børn.
Martin Beck er født den 25/9 1922, så han er 51 år. Han bor sammen med Rhea Nielsen.
Sigrid bliver fundet kvalt i et mosehul og Beck presses til at anholde Folke, men har ingen beviser og egentlig er han heller ikke ret sikker på at det er Folke, der er morderen. Beck finder et par breve fra "Kaj" men det er et svært spor at følge. I Stockholm stopper en politipatrulje en bil med to unge indbrudstyve i. Den ene af disse Krister Paulson skyder to betjente, David Hector og Emil Elofsson, inden han bliver dræbt. Den anden indbrudstyv Kasper stikker bare af. Den tredje betjent, Gustav Borglund, dør, men det er af et hvepsestik.
Det forhindrer dog ikke aviserne i at kalde den undvegne tyv Ronnie Kaspersson, for "politimorder". Han havner tilfældigt ved en anden tyv, som politiet faktisk har under overvågning. Frederik Melander opdager muligheden for to fluer med et smæk, men Stig Malm forkludrer anholdelsen på grotesk vis. Einar Rönn og Gunvald Larsson finder de to tyve Limpan Lindberg og Ronnie Kaspersson igen og anholder dem uden den store anstrengelse.
Karl Kristiansson og Kenneth Kvastmo har deres sædvanlige optræden som dumme betjente, som Gunvald kan overfuse med god ret. Gunvald er 48 år og nyudnævnt kriminalinspektør. Benny Skacke er også kriminalinspektør, er blevet gift med sin sygegymnast og de har en lille pige. Lederen af kriminalteknikerne er Oskar Hjelm, som er dygtig, men noget af en stivstikker.
Indbrudstyven fører indirekte Kollberg på sporet af "Kaj", som viser sig at være fabrikant Kaj Evert Sundstöm, 52 år, og han tilstår inden han dør af en blodprop.
Udmærket politiroman.
Martin Beck kaldes til Trelleborg af Hergott Glad for at hjælpe med efterforskningen af en kvinde, Sigrid Mård, 38 år, der er forsvundet. Folke Bengtsson er for nogle år siden løsladt for mordet på Roseanna McGraw (Roseanne-mordet) og bor i nærheden. Både
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ham og Sigrids mand, Kaptajn Bertil Mård, er nemme mistænkte. Åke Gustavsson, der nu hedder Åke Boman, er blevet journalist efter at have udstået sin straf for at have myrdet Alfred Matsson - Manden der gik op i røg.Lennart Kollberg er plaget af engang at have dræbt en kollega og bliver mere og mere led og ked ved sit arbejde, faktisk ender han med at sige op. Kollberg er gift med Gun på syvende år og har to børn.
Martin Beck er født den 25/9 1922, så han er 51 år. Han bor sammen med Rhea Nielsen.
Sigrid bliver fundet kvalt i et mosehul og Beck presses til at anholde Folke, men har ingen beviser og egentlig er han heller ikke ret sikker på at det er Folke, der er morderen. Beck finder et par breve fra "Kaj" men det er et svært spor at følge. I Stockholm stopper en politipatrulje en bil med to unge indbrudstyve i. Den ene af disse Krister Paulson skyder to betjente, David Hector og Emil Elofsson, inden han bliver dræbt. Den anden indbrudstyv Kasper stikker bare af. Den tredje betjent, Gustav Borglund, dør, men det er af et hvepsestik.
Det forhindrer dog ikke aviserne i at kalde den undvegne tyv Ronnie Kaspersson, for "politimorder". Han havner tilfældigt ved en anden tyv, som politiet faktisk har under overvågning. Frederik Melander opdager muligheden for to fluer med et smæk, men Stig Malm forkludrer anholdelsen på grotesk vis. Einar Rönn og Gunvald Larsson finder de to tyve Limpan Lindberg og Ronnie Kaspersson igen og anholder dem uden den store anstrengelse.
Karl Kristiansson og Kenneth Kvastmo har deres sædvanlige optræden som dumme betjente, som Gunvald kan overfuse med god ret. Gunvald er 48 år og nyudnævnt kriminalinspektør. Benny Skacke er også kriminalinspektør, er blevet gift med sin sygegymnast og de har en lille pige. Lederen af kriminalteknikerne er Oskar Hjelm, som er dygtig, men noget af en stivstikker.
Indbrudstyven fører indirekte Kollberg på sporet af "Kaj", som viser sig at være fabrikant Kaj Evert Sundstöm, 52 år, og han tilstår inden han dør af en blodprop.
Udmærket politiroman.
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[Kbh.] : [Spektrum], 1978.
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML: The shocking ninth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sj�wall and Per Wahl�� finds Beck investigating parallel cases that have shocked a small rural community. In a country town, a woman is brutally murdered and left buried in a swamp. There are two main suspects: her closest neighbor and her ex-husband. Meanwhile, on a quiet suburban street a midnight shootout takes place between three cops and two teenage boys. Dead, one cop and one kid. Wounded, two cops. Escaped, one kid. Martin Beck and his partner Lenart Kollberg are called in to investigate. As Beck digs deeper into the murky waters of the young girl's murder, Kollberg scours the town for the teenager, and together they are forced to examine the changing face of crime. From the Trade Paperback edition..… (more)
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LibraryThing member reading_fox
Bland
Not a lot to say about this one. The plot is fairly dull, a women is reported missing, and eventually her body is found. Martin Beck having narrowly avoided promotion travels out from Stockhom to the peaceful countryside to see if he can find the killer. The obvious supect would be the now
Meanwhile the public attention is diverted away by a cop killing in Malmo- three cops stop a robber's car, a shootout ensues and the cops get hit, while the driver makes a getaway. This is an excuse again for politics to intervene with SWAT style paramilitary police action.
Perhaps the most interesting thing to note, is how similar the UKs police response is becoming to that described 40+ years ago in Sweden, while the police there hold up the old fashioned model of policing in England as the epitome of an ideal police force!
You fairly quickly get the idea how it's all goiong to play out. Just turn the pages and watch your expectations be confirmed.
Not a lot to say about this one. The plot is fairly dull, a women is reported missing, and eventually her body is found. Martin Beck having narrowly avoided promotion travels out from Stockhom to the peaceful countryside to see if he can find the killer. The obvious supect would be the now
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released killer from an earlier book. And indeed in order to effect a quick arrest, and maintain a good PR he is ordered to take him into custody.However Martin has his doubts and continues to work the clues surrounding the case.Meanwhile the public attention is diverted away by a cop killing in Malmo- three cops stop a robber's car, a shootout ensues and the cops get hit, while the driver makes a getaway. This is an excuse again for politics to intervene with SWAT style paramilitary police action.
Perhaps the most interesting thing to note, is how similar the UKs police response is becoming to that described 40+ years ago in Sweden, while the police there hold up the old fashioned model of policing in England as the epitome of an ideal police force!
You fairly quickly get the idea how it's all goiong to play out. Just turn the pages and watch your expectations be confirmed.
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LibraryThing member CBJames
Who is the cop killer?
Cop Killer, the ninth volume in The Story of A Crime series, starts with an investigation that takes police detective Martin Beck out of Stockholm to a small town on Sweden's southernmost coast. There he befriends the head of the local police department, a bachelor who lives
Midway through the search for the missing woman a pair of small time hoods, stopped for a traffic violation, open fire on three police officers. One police officer dies several days later, due to a wasp sting incurred when he fell in a nearby ditch trying to avoid the gun fire. The other officers survive the shooting. One of the hoods is killed.
Afterwards, the media circus that had been following Beck's case, moves on to the search for the cop killer, the higher brass in the national police force having made sure the story of the wasp sting did not get out to the press. The Sweden's press follows the bungled search for a petty criminal who never fired a gun in his life, while the reader follows the story of Beck's professional police work as he continues to search for the woman's killer.
At this point in the series, Sjowall and Wahloo are openly dealing with political and social issues in their books. They take care to keep the events of the story uppermost in the reader's mind, but they are willing to pause the twin searches for a page or two when needed to complete their critique of Swedish society. The story itself now serves the project, too. The press who hound an innocent man accused of the woman's murder, for example, an "innocent" man was recently released from prison in spite of murdering the girl in the first book Roseanna. Sjowall and Wahloo are thus able to critique a justice system that let a killer walk free after serving only a few years in prison while simulaneously attacking a press corp and a police force that rushes to judgement without any evidence, even that of a corpse.
The National Police Force has borne the brunt of Sjowall and Wahloo's critique. With its incompetant, politically appointed upper brass who has militaized the police force giving him a small army to arrest a petty thief and the cops who confronted speeding drivers guns drawn in the first place, I'm starting to wonder what the crime is in The Story of a Crime. Why isn't it The Story of Crime? Why "A" crime? The crime seems to be the nature of the Swedish police force once it was nationalized. The real criminal in Sjowall and Wahloo's series appears to be the Swedish government charged with protecting its citizens and enforcing the law. The government commits a crime on its police force who then become part of the crime committed on the people of Sweden.
This is not a comforting thought in America circa 2011.
Towards the end of the novel, Beck complains to a compatriot that the helicopters and heavy weaponry the police for now owns will have to be used to justify their purchase, even though they are not needed to arrest a single, unarmed, frightened young man. Sjowall and Wahloo drive this point home when the failed show of force is followed by a pair of old-time professional police officers who simply find and arrest the young man.
Meantime, some 40 years after Cop Killer was published, the Department of Homeland Security is sending tanks like the one pictured here to police departments across the United States at a time when violent crime rates are at record lows throughout the country.
It's this intermixing of classic police procedural and social critique that helped make The Story of a Crime the trendsetting success the books became. It's also what makes them unsettling reading today.
Cop Killer, the ninth volume in The Story of A Crime series, starts with an investigation that takes police detective Martin Beck out of Stockholm to a small town on Sweden's southernmost coast. There he befriends the head of the local police department, a bachelor who lives
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above the police station. Over the days and then weeks he spends investigating the disappearence of a local woman, Beck comes to see that the detectives who choose to live and work far removed from Stockholm are probably better than the detectives in the city. Not what he expected to find at all.Midway through the search for the missing woman a pair of small time hoods, stopped for a traffic violation, open fire on three police officers. One police officer dies several days later, due to a wasp sting incurred when he fell in a nearby ditch trying to avoid the gun fire. The other officers survive the shooting. One of the hoods is killed.
Afterwards, the media circus that had been following Beck's case, moves on to the search for the cop killer, the higher brass in the national police force having made sure the story of the wasp sting did not get out to the press. The Sweden's press follows the bungled search for a petty criminal who never fired a gun in his life, while the reader follows the story of Beck's professional police work as he continues to search for the woman's killer.
At this point in the series, Sjowall and Wahloo are openly dealing with political and social issues in their books. They take care to keep the events of the story uppermost in the reader's mind, but they are willing to pause the twin searches for a page or two when needed to complete their critique of Swedish society. The story itself now serves the project, too. The press who hound an innocent man accused of the woman's murder, for example, an "innocent" man was recently released from prison in spite of murdering the girl in the first book Roseanna. Sjowall and Wahloo are thus able to critique a justice system that let a killer walk free after serving only a few years in prison while simulaneously attacking a press corp and a police force that rushes to judgement without any evidence, even that of a corpse.
The National Police Force has borne the brunt of Sjowall and Wahloo's critique. With its incompetant, politically appointed upper brass who has militaized the police force giving him a small army to arrest a petty thief and the cops who confronted speeding drivers guns drawn in the first place, I'm starting to wonder what the crime is in The Story of a Crime. Why isn't it The Story of Crime? Why "A" crime? The crime seems to be the nature of the Swedish police force once it was nationalized. The real criminal in Sjowall and Wahloo's series appears to be the Swedish government charged with protecting its citizens and enforcing the law. The government commits a crime on its police force who then become part of the crime committed on the people of Sweden.
This is not a comforting thought in America circa 2011.
Towards the end of the novel, Beck complains to a compatriot that the helicopters and heavy weaponry the police for now owns will have to be used to justify their purchase, even though they are not needed to arrest a single, unarmed, frightened young man. Sjowall and Wahloo drive this point home when the failed show of force is followed by a pair of old-time professional police officers who simply find and arrest the young man.
Meantime, some 40 years after Cop Killer was published, the Department of Homeland Security is sending tanks like the one pictured here to police departments across the United States at a time when violent crime rates are at record lows throughout the country.
It's this intermixing of classic police procedural and social critique that helped make The Story of a Crime the trendsetting success the books became. It's also what makes them unsettling reading today.
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LibraryThing member tixylix
I enjoyed the 9th Martin Beck novel. The story touches on issues of the time which are still relevant today: should policeman carry loaded weapons? If they do, are injuries and deaths more likely to occur by accident or design?
The plot revolves around the murder of a woman. There are two likely
Humour lifts the book, particularly with the character of the local policeman, Allwright, but the dark thread of the changing police force runs throughout the novel.
The plot revolves around the murder of a woman. There are two likely
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killers and Beck travels to the southern tip of Sweden to investigate the murder. Humour lifts the book, particularly with the character of the local policeman, Allwright, but the dark thread of the changing police force runs throughout the novel.
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LibraryThing member Algybama
Not an exciting novel by any means. The police procedural stuff only gets good near the end. Read it for the dialogue and the entertaining social critique. There are also some very beautiful descriptive paragraphs.
LibraryThing member bfister
The ninth volume of Sjowall & Wahloo's "story of a crime," this one takes Martin Beck to a small community in the south where a woman has vanished. As Martin and Kollberg interview her ex-husband and a suspicious fellow - the man they convicted of the murder of Roseana (the first story in the
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series), Martin tries to cope with a boss who is happily militarizing the police force and Kollberg wonders whether he wants to be a police officer anymore. As their investigation plods along, a couple of young men are stopped by the police. One of them draws a gun; soon three cops are seriously injured and the shooter is dead. The police go all out to find the "cop killer" and in the process an important clue to the missing woman's killer turns up. This is a great series. Here, the authors outline the pointed difference between thoughtful police work and the way the militarized police organization responds to a shooting. Show Less
LibraryThing member Larou
Although this ninth is only the penultimate volume of Maj Sjöwall’s and Per Wahlöö’s consistently excellent series of police procedurals, it feels like a summing up of what has gone before, of things coming to a head and to an end. The most obvious cause of that is probably that Cop Killer
Nobody who read the any of the previous volumes will be surprised that Sjöwall and Wahlöö take a very dim view of that course, and in Cop Killer there is a pervading sense that things have deteriorated to a state were they are becoming unendurable. Martin Beck spends most of the time in a small provincial town in Southern Sweden, and while that seems like an almost idyllic place compared to Stockholm or even Malmö, it does not remain untouched from the general corruption. More, there is a distinct of siege mentality, with the few good people withdrawing from society, moving to the fringes or into privacy where they try to withstand the tide of greed and stupidity sweeping over the country – I even felt reminded of the zombie apocalypse at times if only for the unrelenting fatalism with which the characters in this novel seem to accept the unavoidable victory of the power-hungry and incompetent. Everyone seems to be resigned to the fact that the country is going to the dogs and that their small acts of defiance (finding the actual killer of a woman in spite of pressure from one’s superiors, arresting a small-time criminal before the full weight of a militarized police force comes crushes on him) will be ultimately futile as the police is taken over by ruthless thugs in the lower and even more ruthless careerists in the upper ranks.
As can probably be guessed from the above, Cop Killer is a very dark and indeed bitter novel. Even so, it is also an occasionally very funny one, as Sjöwall and Wahlöö continue to give their satiric urge free rein, this time not just aiming at police bureaucracy and incompetence but also at the press and their greed for headlines. It is grim and biting humour but still serves as at least a bit of comic relief in what is otherwise a very bleak novel, that barely manages to become outright depressing by granting the protagonists that we have been following over nine volumes now at least some level of private happiness (although it has to be added that compared to earlier volumes their private lives is not given much space here). Just one novel to go now, and it will be interesting to see where Sjöwall and Wahlöö will take the final volume of the series from here.
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harkens back to the first two novels by bringing back the murderers featured in them (which is why it is a good to not read Cop Killer before Roseanna and The Man Who Went Up In Smoke, unless you really don’t mind spoilers). Maybe somewhat less obvious, but definitely more important is the way this novel marks the culmination of the authors’ ongoing critique of the course Swedish society has taken since the late 60’s.Nobody who read the any of the previous volumes will be surprised that Sjöwall and Wahlöö take a very dim view of that course, and in Cop Killer there is a pervading sense that things have deteriorated to a state were they are becoming unendurable. Martin Beck spends most of the time in a small provincial town in Southern Sweden, and while that seems like an almost idyllic place compared to Stockholm or even Malmö, it does not remain untouched from the general corruption. More, there is a distinct of siege mentality, with the few good people withdrawing from society, moving to the fringes or into privacy where they try to withstand the tide of greed and stupidity sweeping over the country – I even felt reminded of the zombie apocalypse at times if only for the unrelenting fatalism with which the characters in this novel seem to accept the unavoidable victory of the power-hungry and incompetent. Everyone seems to be resigned to the fact that the country is going to the dogs and that their small acts of defiance (finding the actual killer of a woman in spite of pressure from one’s superiors, arresting a small-time criminal before the full weight of a militarized police force comes crushes on him) will be ultimately futile as the police is taken over by ruthless thugs in the lower and even more ruthless careerists in the upper ranks.
As can probably be guessed from the above, Cop Killer is a very dark and indeed bitter novel. Even so, it is also an occasionally very funny one, as Sjöwall and Wahlöö continue to give their satiric urge free rein, this time not just aiming at police bureaucracy and incompetence but also at the press and their greed for headlines. It is grim and biting humour but still serves as at least a bit of comic relief in what is otherwise a very bleak novel, that barely manages to become outright depressing by granting the protagonists that we have been following over nine volumes now at least some level of private happiness (although it has to be added that compared to earlier volumes their private lives is not given much space here). Just one novel to go now, and it will be interesting to see where Sjöwall and Wahlöö will take the final volume of the series from here.
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LibraryThing member leslie.98
I was a bit taken aback when the book seemed to leave the main mystery about two-thirds of the way through to tackle the case of the 'cop killer' but the two cases do connect up in the end. The name is a bit misleading as the 'cop killer' case is clearly the secondary mystery; however, it does
This 1973 Swedish book and what the authors are trying to say about relations between police & citizens struck me as strikingly relevant to 2016 U.S. In the police, in this book (and I assume in today's forces), the individual policemen vary from the lazy & incompetent to the honest & hard-working, from the bullies who revel in the power that the badge gives them to the naive foolhardiness of some rookies to the tired experienced men. What is scary to Kollberg and Beck (and to me!) is the organizational mindset of a bureaucracy which views aggressive confrontation as the natural and best response to any situation, with bigger and more weapons as an improvement. And encouraging this mindset is the journalism which is uninterested in waiting for "the truth" as long as a good headline can be found.
Into this scenario enters the 'cop killer' --a teenaged boy who was present when another boy shoots at a couple of patrolmen after one of them begins to threaten him. The cop who dies does so as a result of a bee sting he gets when he is hiding from all the commotion in a ditch! But that doesn't factor into the police chief's decision to start a country-wide man hunt for the "Cop Killer" complete with attack dogs, tear gas and assault weapons... This sort of over-reaction is part of what leads to dead black kids in America.
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illustrate the authors' point about the police & government bureaucracy perfectly. This 1973 Swedish book and what the authors are trying to say about relations between police & citizens struck me as strikingly relevant to 2016 U.S. In the police, in this book (and I assume in today's forces), the individual policemen vary from the lazy & incompetent to the honest & hard-working, from the bullies who revel in the power that the badge gives them to the naive foolhardiness of some rookies to the tired experienced men. What is scary to Kollberg and Beck (and to me!) is the organizational mindset of a bureaucracy which views aggressive confrontation as the natural and best response to any situation, with bigger and more weapons as an improvement. And encouraging this mindset is the journalism which is uninterested in waiting for "the truth" as long as a good headline can be found.
Into this scenario enters the 'cop killer' --
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LibraryThing member jguidry
This was a typical police procedural in the Martin Beck series. I liked how the authors brought back suspects from previous books in the series into this one. They were woven into this storyline in a well-thought out way. It was very natural and didn't seemed forced. The sudden plot turn during the
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story was confusing at first, but they tied it together nicely eventually. The ending was a slight let down, but it did make sense. Overall, I enjoyed the story. This series is growing on me. Show Less
LibraryThing member datrappert
Beck travels to southern Sweden when a woman disappears and murder is suspected. There he meets an unconventional but effective policeman and his dog. Through the usual series of unbelievable coincidences, several cases end up being connected, and the resolution is quite satisfying. The politics
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are of course quite important here, and the authors succeed in making 1970s Sweden seem like hell on earth, despite the presence of a lot of good people and beautiful countryside. Only one more book to go in the series, and it makes me a bit sad. I do feel I've learned a bit about Sweden here, and Tom Weiner's narration is beyond superb as he makes all the Swedish place names sound so memorable and manages to give distinct voices to so many characters. Perhaps I need to start looking for audiobooks based on whether he is reading them! Show Less
LibraryThing member TomDonaghey
Cop Killer (1974) (Martin Beck #8) by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo. Like the first seven books in the Martin Beck series, this too is great. A woman disappears in a small Swedish town. This is an almost daily happening somewhere in the world and nothing to be too alarmed about. People walk away from
With his return in this crime novel, the powers that be decide to send Martin Beck and Lennart Kollberg from of the National Police Squad to assist in the investigation. The woman is missing and signs point to Folke as possibly having given her a ride back from town to her house. A house that is down the road a bit yet the next house along from Folke’s.
While the investigation drags along slowly, a second event, seemingly unrelated occurs. Three policemen, during a traffic stop, are shot at by one of the two young men in the stopped car. One young man escapes, the other is killed. One of the police is killed by the unexpected and surprising “Cop Killer” of the title. A nationwide alert is put out for the car the second man drove off in, but he soon ditches it and steals another, then heads off for Stockholm.
As in each of the previous books, seemingly random events lead to the actual criminal. Beck and Kohlberg talk to a lot of people, eat many meals, and wait for the puzzle to break. The woman’s body is discovered by hikers almost at the end of the book. Folke is arrested though neither of the detectives is convinced he is guilty. There is the usual interference from higher authorities that called for his arrest, quietly wanting the case ended without further ado.
But this book is not meant to be only a police story. This decade of novels written over a decade is a cry from the authors calling out injustice in Swedish society of that time. The books are about the overwhelming injustice felt at all but the highest levels of society. Look to the streets of any country today and you can see what they were writing about almost 60 years ago.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
While these books are now relics from a former age, you might be surprised at just how alive they are and relevant to the world of today. And they are among the first of the “police procedural” novels out there, framing the structure for what was to come. Read these as fun, as a journey to the past, as a harbinger for today and tomorrow, but just read them. And I suggest you start with Roseanna and go straight through the series. You won’t be disappointed.
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their lives for thousands of different reasons, while a small percentage are taken from their routine life against their wishes. This woman might have been abducted by her neighbor, Folke Bengtsson. He was once convicted of murdering an American tourist. That murder was detailed in the first book of this series, Roseanna.With his return in this crime novel, the powers that be decide to send Martin Beck and Lennart Kollberg from of the National Police Squad to assist in the investigation. The woman is missing and signs point to Folke as possibly having given her a ride back from town to her house. A house that is down the road a bit yet the next house along from Folke’s.
While the investigation drags along slowly, a second event, seemingly unrelated occurs. Three policemen, during a traffic stop, are shot at by one of the two young men in the stopped car. One young man escapes, the other is killed. One of the police is killed by the unexpected and surprising “Cop Killer” of the title. A nationwide alert is put out for the car the second man drove off in, but he soon ditches it and steals another, then heads off for Stockholm.
As in each of the previous books, seemingly random events lead to the actual criminal. Beck and Kohlberg talk to a lot of people, eat many meals, and wait for the puzzle to break. The woman’s body is discovered by hikers almost at the end of the book. Folke is arrested though neither of the detectives is convinced he is guilty. There is the usual interference from higher authorities that called for his arrest, quietly wanting the case ended without further ado.
But this book is not meant to be only a police story. This decade of novels written over a decade is a cry from the authors calling out injustice in Swedish society of that time. The books are about the overwhelming injustice felt at all but the highest levels of society. Look to the streets of any country today and you can see what they were writing about almost 60 years ago.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
While these books are now relics from a former age, you might be surprised at just how alive they are and relevant to the world of today. And they are among the first of the “police procedural” novels out there, framing the structure for what was to come. Read these as fun, as a journey to the past, as a harbinger for today and tomorrow, but just read them. And I suggest you start with Roseanna and go straight through the series. You won’t be disappointed.
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Original language
Swedish
Original publication date
1974
1975 (English translation)
Physical description
305 p.; 20 cm
ISBN
8700408115 / 9788700408111
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Omslag: John Ovesen
Omslaget viser en uniformeret politibetjent, der ligger på jorden, mens en anden person i baggrunden skynder sig væk.
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra svensk "Polismördaren" af Bjarne Nielsen
Roman om en forbrydelse, bind 9
Side 22: Væsken i papkrusene hævdedes at være kaffe og fremkaldte omgående utilpashed.
Side 69: Der lugtede som om halvtreds mennesker havde sover derinde og dårligt nok som om det overhovedet havde været mennesker.
Side 73: Jeg vil have Sigrid og et skib. Og nu har jeg hverken det ene eller det andet. Og her må en mand ikke engang drikke sig ihjel uden at fanden og hans oldemor blander sig i det.
Side 74: Hun kunne lide mig. Hun plejede at sige at det var ligesom at blive kørt over af toget.
Side 95: Abbott, Castello, Gustav II Adolf
Side 153: fredag 16 november. Hun forsvinder den 17 oktober og bliver fundet 12 november.
Side 118: For ham var Malm hvad den røde klud påstås at være for tyren eller snarere hvad den uheldige bøddel var for Patkul. (En henvisning til Johann Reinhold Patkul (1660- 1707), som blev radbrækket og så halshugget - og endda måtte lide under at der skulle flere hug til.)
Side 158: Satans også at man ikke kan drikke sig ihjel uden at det skal gøre ondt. Det er vel drankerens forbandelse.
Side 209: Doktor Aztazkanzakerskij.
Side 254: Det er besynderligt så tit vi har befundet os i denne situation de sidste ti år. Skyldes det måske at du er et endnu større ærkefjols end alle de andre idioter der gør politiet her i byen så elendigt?
Omslaget viser en uniformeret politibetjent, der ligger på jorden, mens en anden person i baggrunden skynder sig væk.
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra svensk "Polismördaren" af Bjarne Nielsen
Roman om en forbrydelse, bind 9
Side 22: Væsken i papkrusene hævdedes at være kaffe og fremkaldte omgående utilpashed.
Side 69: Der lugtede som om halvtreds mennesker havde sover derinde og dårligt nok som om det overhovedet havde været mennesker.
Side 73: Jeg vil have Sigrid og et skib. Og nu har jeg hverken det ene eller det andet. Og her må en mand ikke engang drikke sig ihjel uden at fanden og hans oldemor blander sig i det.
Side 74: Hun kunne lide mig. Hun plejede at sige at det var ligesom at blive kørt over af toget.
Side 95: Abbott, Castello, Gustav II Adolf
Side 153: fredag 16 november. Hun forsvinder den 17 oktober og bliver fundet 12 november.
Side 118: For ham var Malm hvad den røde klud påstås at være for tyren eller snarere hvad den uheldige bøddel var for Patkul. (En henvisning til Johann Reinhold Patkul (1660- 1707), som blev radbrækket og så halshugget - og endda måtte lide under at der skulle flere hug til.)
Side 158: Satans også at man ikke kan drikke sig ihjel uden at det skal gøre ondt. Det er vel drankerens forbandelse.
Side 209: Doktor Aztazkanzakerskij.
Side 254: Det er besynderligt så tit vi har befundet os i denne situation de sidste ti år. Skyldes det måske at du er et endnu større ærkefjols end alle de andre idioter der gør politiet her i byen så elendigt?
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