Reviews 

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...

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 first Martin Beck novel was written by a Swedish communist husband and wife team in the 1960's. Well dramatised on Radio 4 recently,...

P recommended this because it has a murder in it. I loathed it; a real 'woman's' book, with a central character so obsessed with her...

The latest. Good but not one of the best. Too many characters are absent. Banks in Tallinn investigating two (of course) closely related...

This is quite a good US cop thriller written, amazingly, by someone who must be someone's Gran and who lives in Northumbria. It has a...

I had read this before and had always been a bit put off by the fact that (I think) Reginald Hill has written a book with a similar theme...

This is a very strange book; I had read it before. The difficulty I have is that the 'who done it side' is all about motive, which is...

Got this as a Kindle book for nothing (needed a break from no.11 below). A detective story with a very poorly characterised cop, which...

Billed as the next Steig Larsson. Not sure about this. Very long complex plot, set in Norway. Bit of a chiller really, and hence not my...

Suicide/Murder(?) screwed up family, security services involvement, a bit of state terrorism. Dalziel was deceived (?) by the prime...