Reviews 

My Kindle miraculously revived, but I am afraid that this book suffered in comparison with no.122. Rookie cop caught between his job and...

My kindle miraculously revived, but I’m afraid this book suffered in comparison with Burgess. Rookie cop caught between his job and his...

Wanted to re-read this as it is the one that precedes 'Bad Boy' and I had forgotten bits of the plot, which is 'Othello' transposed into...

Great, big book - post Vietnam meets Raymond Chandler (the end is very Chandler-esque - serious wealth and serious corruption). Small...

This is a really good book; Mankell is a cut above most thriller writers. It gathers pace, a bit like a lot of films where more attention...

Not one of the better ones; this features Sigindur Oli who is the least likeable of the trio of detectives. Corruption amongst Icelandic...

Another old murder; this time from WW2 Reykjavik. Hints of a fairy story about it; particularly the family suffering from the very...

I am hooked on these now. Found this one hard to get into initially (no murder, just a clear cut suicide) but so cleverly done that you...

Much better than no.76, more like no.75. This guy is quite good; original plotting, three quite interesting cops, especially Erlendur,...

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...

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...

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

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

Similar to no.41 and although Jessica Daniel's character had developed, I didn't think it was as good (or maybe it was better, but hadn't...

Police procedural with female cop (Jessica Daniel). Set in Manchester. I thought this was pretty good and could merit a TV series. Feisty...

By far the worst book I have attempted to read (ever?!), didn't finish it. Luckily only cost a few pennies. Characterless characters, if...