Roseanna / Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo ; translated from the Swedish by Lois Roth.
Language: English Original language: Swedish Series: Martin Beck. 1 | Martin Beck seriesPublication details: London : Fourth Estate, 2011.Description: 245 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780007439119
- Roseanna. English.
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | SJO | Beck Bk.1 | Available | 057355 |
First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz in 1968.
CRIME & MYSTERY. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo. Written in the 1960s, 10 books completed in 10 years, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo - a husband and wife team from Sweden. They follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction. ROSEANNA begins on a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. Three months later, all that Police Inspector Martin Beck knows is that her name is Roseanna, that she came from Lincoln, Nebraska, and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people. With its authentically rendered settings and vividly realised characters, and its command over the intricately woven details of police detection, ROSEANNA is a masterpiece of suspense and sadness.
