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Cop Killer: The Martin Beck Series by Sjöwall, Maj; Wahlöö, Per is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The shocking ninth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö finds Beck investigating parallel cases that have shocked a small rural community. In a country town, a woman is brutally murdered and left buried in a swamp. There are two main suspects: her closest neighbor and her ex-husband. Meanwhile, on a quiet suburban street a midnight shootout takes place between three cops and two teenage boys. Dead, one cop and one kid. Wounded, two cops. Escaped, one kid. Martin Beck and his partner Lenart Kollberg are called in to investigate. As Beck digs deeper into the murky waters of the young girl’s murder, Kollberg scours the town for the teenager, and together they are forced to examine the changing face of crime. Review “The first great series of police thrillers. . . . Truly exciting.”—Michael Ondaatje "The [Martin Beck] series has maintained such a degree of excellence that comparisons are near impossible."-- Minneapolis Tribune “It’s hard to think of any other thriller writers (apart from Simenon perhaps) who can capture so much of a society in a couple of hundred pages and yet still hold true to the thriller form.”—Sean and Nicci French “Sjöwall and W

Who reads Cop Killer: The Martin Beck Series?

Author

Sjöwall, Maj; Wahlöö, Per

Publisher

Vintage

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007242993

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

4.02 / 5 (1,305 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14