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Jenn
May 17, 2010 rated it liked it
Shelves: fiction, mystery, novel, read-2010
It's the Swedish version of "Law & Order," friends. I've read now several reviews that describe Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's Martin Beck mystery series as both the birth place of the Swedish crime book and also as a staple and perfection of the police procedural (even the back cover brags of this last). That's actually a perfect encapsulation. The pace is slower than the vaunted TV reference, but otherwise, this is exactly the kind of thing I'd expect to see in re-runs on TNT: a summer crime wav ...more
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Jim Coughenour
Dec 30, 2010 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: crime4connoisseurs
Sjöwakk and Wahlöö's 1968 police novel, as procedural as they come. The culmination is almost beside the point. It barely makes it into the book.

I got a kick out of the new character, Gunvald Larsson, a pretentious hulk of a detective with "shoulders like a heavyweight boxer and huge hands covered with shaggy blond hair." Martin Beck is even more of a wreck. So satisfying. A Man on the Balcony is number three in the series; seven to go. ...more
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Kyoko
Oct 14, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: crime-mystery, scandinavia
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Laura
Dec 12, 2009 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Jim McCullaugh
Mar 05, 2010 rated it it was amazing
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May 27, 2011 rated it really liked it
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Freddie
May 27, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Doreen Dalesandro
Jun 13, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Jul 09, 2011 rated it liked it
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Feb 22, 2013 rated it it was amazing
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Peter
Mar 06, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: mystery, police
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