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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
For $1.99 Kobo AU has Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's:
Roseanna (Martin Beck series, No 1) (translator not stated)
blurb:
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?
Maybe the same price in Kobo your country ......
Murg I remembered the links today, eh!!  |
I had to read the entire Martin Beck series for a "themes in Literature" class in college a couple years back. The books are good, and these pretty much defined the early crime fiction genre. I detected a bit of a bias against women in these books early on, though-- "loose" women usually ended up dead. The men could philander to their hearts' content throughout the series, though. One has to keep in mind the era when these books were written, though (and the fact that it is Sweden).
The Kindle edition (as of this writing) is $10.99 in the US. Good thing I got all mine as (very) used paperbacks through the offices of eBay.