Roseanna: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (1)

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Price
$17.00  $15.81
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Publish Date
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.2 X 8.0 X 0.7 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780307390462

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About the Author

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, her husband and coauthor, wrote ten Martin Beck mysteries. They plotted and researched each book together then wrote alternate chapters. The books were written over a ten year period and carefully planned to allow for gradual character development and evolving social commentary as the series continued. Mr Wahloo, who died in 1975, was a reporter for several Swedish newspapers and magazines and wrote numerous radio and television plays, film scripts, short stories, and novels. Maj Sjöwall is also a poet.

Reviews
"A modern classic. . . . Lively, stylistically taut . . . Sjöwall and Wahlöö changed the genre." --Henning Mankell, from the introduction

"A wonderfully tough and pleasantly chilling tale . . . told without a wasted word."--Harper's

"One of the most authentic, gripping and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished."--Michael Connelly

"Superb suspense. . . . Let no mystery authority worth the appellation miss Roseanna. . . . I have never read a finer police story." --Dorothy B. Hughes, Los Angeles Times

"The first great series of police thriller....Truly exciting."--Michael Ondaatje

"Sjöwall and Wahlöö are the best writers of police procedural in the world."--Birmingham Post