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Once again (by now I'm a broken record) I enjoyed every bit of The Locked Room, the eighth in this series. Sjöwall and Wahlöö resurrect one of the deadest tropes in detective fiction (this one goes all the way back to Poe) to weave a wry tale of murder and melancholy mayhem. It's almost as if they're playing the form for laughs this time around, even, darkly, in the acerbic commentary on the sad state of 70s Sweden – "…the fact of the matter is that the so-called Welfare State abounds with sick,
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Not the most gripping read, but certainly one of the smartest I've read. Like so many other Swedish writers, no matter which decade they were/are writing in, Sjowall and Wahloo take a dim view of the society they live in and take a special delight in ridiculing the police. Martin Beck is the smart guy in the background who gets it done- no bluster, no shootin', no credit. I look forward to reading more of their books.
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Oct 14, 2009
Kyoko
rated it
it was amazing
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Shelves:
crime-mystery,
scandinavia
Apr 22, 2011
Karmologyclinic
rated it
really liked it
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Shelves:
audio-books,
crime-thriller
Feb 10, 2020
Alessandro Rizzolli
rated it
really liked it
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Shelves:
crime-nordic,
martin-beck-series
