The ninth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s & 70s
- the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels & have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson Henning Mankell & Jo Nesbo. In a Swedish country town a woman is brutally murdered & left buried in a swamp. On a quiet suburban street a midnight shootout takes place between three cops & two teenage boys. Detective Inspector Martin Beck & his partner Lennart Kollberg are called in on both cases. In the unfamiliar small-town setting they encounter figures from their earlier cases...