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Roseanna is the first book in the hugely acclaimed Martin Beck series:
the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime fiction and
influenced writers from Stieg Larrson to Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell to
Lars Kepplar.
On a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from a lake
in southern Sweden. Raped and murdered, she is naked, unmarked and
carries no sign of her identity. As Detective Inspector Martin Beck
slowly begins to make the connections that will bring her identity to
light, he uncovers a series of crimes further reaching than he ever
would have imagined and a killer far more dangerous. How much will Beck
be prepared to risk to catch him? 'The writing is elegant and
surprisingly humorous - if you haven't come across Beck before, you're
in for a treat.' Guardian
'I have never read a finer police story.' Los Angeles Times
'The decalogue about the Swedish Chief Inspector Martin Beck created by
Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo during the 1960s and 1970s are indeed classic
police fiction. They changed the genre. Whoever is writing crime fiction
after these novels inspired by them in one way or another.' Henning Mankell
'If you haven't read Sjowall/Wahloo, start now.' Sunday Telegraph
'Their mysteries don't just read well; they reread even better.
Witness, wife, petty cop or crook - they're all real characters even if
they get just a few sentences. The plots hold, because they're ingenious
but never inhuman.' New York Times Per Wahlöö was born in Göteborg,
the son of Waldemar and Karin (Svensson) Wahlöö. After graduating from
the University of Lund in 1946, he worked as a journalist, covering
criminal and social issues for a number of newspapers and magazines. In
the 1950s Wahlöö was engaged in radical political causes, activities
that resulted in his deportation from Franco's Spain in 1957. After
returning to Sweden, he wrote a number of television and radio plays,
and was managing editor of several magazines, before becoming a
full-time writer.
Maj Sjowall is a poet. She lives in Sweden.
