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Nov 14, 20121 min read
56. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - The Man On The Balcony
This one is very Ed McBain police procedural. You get to know a lot of Beck's colleagues a lot better. Child sex murderer loose in...
Nov 12, 20121 min read
55. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - The Man Who Went Up In Smoke
The 2nd book in the series. Wonderful descriptions of Budapest, when Beck sent over there and very much a spy story while he is there...
Nov 10, 20121 min read
54. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - Roseanna
The first Martin Beck novel was written by a Swedish communist husband and wife team in the 1960's. Well dramatised on Radio 4 recently,...
Apr 19, 20121 min read
4. John Le Carré - A Small Town In Germany
Read this before, probably about 30 years ago! Set in Bonn in the late '60s, the central figure (although he never appears) is a man who...