Description
On a July afternoon, a young woman’s body is dredged from Sweden’s Lake Vättern, and the case offers almost no starting points. Detective Martin Beck—practical, skeptical, and stubbornly methodical—must piece together a truth from fragments as he follows the investigation into the darker currents beneath everyday life. As the clues slowly emerge, the novel explores how institutions respond to violence, how social pressures shape human behavior, and how justice is pursued when certainty is out of reach. Written with Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s crisp, unsentimental realism, this is a landmark crime story that turns procedure into a sharp study of society.
Available Editions
paperback
RBA Libros
Published Nov 12, 2015
272 pages
ISBN: 9788490566350
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Details
First Published
1965
Language
eng
Translation
From: swe
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö.