Cop Killer: A Martin Beck Police Mystery
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In the penultimate installment of this masterful crime-fiction series, Martin Beck, now head of the National Murder Squad, is called in to a sleepy part of the countryside to investigate a woman's disappearance. What Beck doesn't know is that the woman has already been murdered, her body dumped in a swamp. At the same time, a midnight shoot-out between three cops and two teenage boys ends with one policeman dead.
As Beck and his partner, Lennart Kollberg, investigate both cases, they encounter two figures from their earlier cases. Folke Bengtsson, the convicted killer from the first novel of the series (Roseanna), has been recently released. Since that murder shared many characteristics with Beck's present case, Beck comes under pressure to arrest Bengtsson. But Beck has begun to doubt that Bengtsson was guilty of any murder at all.
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Maj Sjöwall. (2009). Cop Killer: A Martin Beck Police Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Maj Sjöwall. 2009. Cop Killer: A Martin Beck Police Mystery. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Maj Sjöwall, Cop Killer: A Martin Beck Police Mystery. Blackstone Publishing, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Maj Sjöwall. Cop Killer: A Martin Beck Police Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2009.
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As Beck and his partner, Lennart Kollberg, investigate both cases, they encounter two figures from their earlier cases. Folke Bengtsson, the convicted killer from the first novel of the series (Roseanna), has been recently released. Since that murder shared many characteristics with Beck's present case, Beck comes under pressure to arrest Bengtsson. But Beck has begun to doubt that Bengtsson was guilty of any murder at all.
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Starred review from October 15, 2010
Sjowall and her common-law husband, the late Wahloo, together cowrote a series of ten police procedurals set in Sweden and featuring National Homicide Squad chief Martin Beck. This ninth entry, originally published in 1974, follows Beck and his assistant, Lennart Kollberg, as they investigate two cases: that of a murdered woman and the shooting death of a police officer. The lead suspect in the latter case is Folke Bengtsson, a convicted murderer who appeared in the series opener, Roseanna (1965). Beck, however, harbors doubts about his guilt. Throughout this low-key narrative, we see political infighting among the members of the Swedish police force and Beck and Kollberg's dissatisfaction with the status quo. Veteran voice artist Tom Weiner does his usual excellent job narrating this series, the entirety of which is available from Blackstone Audio. Highly recommended.--Stephen L. Hupp, West Virginia Univ. Parkersburg Lib.
Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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