Reviews 

The last Bristol novel. Never read any Snow before. I found myself enjoying this more as it went on; a between the wars provincial middle...

A bit of Scandinavian crime pushed in the UK heavily a couple of years ago following the Wallander boom. OK-ish as a story, middle-class...

Was aiming for 'Hamlet', but couldn't navigate the complete works. Read this as a play about order/disorder/order restored, and focussed...

Conned by Amazon's marketing, but I wanted a cheap thriller, so this is what I bought. Not bad as such - the hero is a Roma ex-cop,...

The last one in the series and pretty good. There is a wonderful lawyer whose name I can't remember who speaks I am sure with the authors...

Same schizophrenia. Main plot good; woman murdered in town inhabited by two different murderers who appear in no.54 and no.55, so both...

8/10 in the series ( I have just bought 9). The locked room is apparently analogous to a chess puzzle; how has someone been shot dead (in...

The 7th and best so far. I like the way they fit different (in this case a very nondescript one) detectives around Martin Beck. A book...

Another excellent book in this excellent series. It is hard to characterise what I enjoy in these books; slightly sardonic humour and...

Pretty good, again. A book about an absent (for most of the book) criminal, the police spend most of the time looking for a murderer who...

Very good, again; I do like these books (obviously). There is quite a gang of policemen, all with their individual quirks, and because...

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...

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...

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,...

Haven't read this for about 40 years since studying it as an A-level set text. Found it surprisingly hard work; enjoyed it enormously at...