The Abominable Man
by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
It starts with a murder in the local hospital and Martin Beck is investigating. The authors are great at doing the dialogue. It is so realistic
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“It starts with a murder in the local hospital. A senior policeman is killed. Martin Beck is investigating the murder and he realises that the policeman who got killed wasn’t a good policeman. Everyone hated him. The story shows how the murderer is in some way connected to the bad policeman. The policeman made one bad choice which links him to the murderer and that is why the killer started killing policemen. The authors are great at doing the dialogue. It is so realistic. They were a little bit radical in their politics and there are lots of discussions to do with that. They describe Swedish society in the late sixties and early seventies.” Read more...
