by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007232833
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«Roseanna» is the crime novel by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (288 pages, in English).
On a July afternoon, the body of a young woman appears in Lake Vattern (Sweden). Inspector Martin Beck must discover who she was and who killed her: he only knows that her name was Roseanna and that any of the eighty-five people on a cruise ship could have strangled her. Beck becomes obsessed with reconstructing the victim's life and the killer's mind.
First installment of the Martin Beck series, originally published in 1965; this English edition, translated by Lois Roth, includes an introduction by Henning Mankell.
For those seeking Scandinavian crime fiction and wanting to start the Martin Beck series from the first installment.
Maj Sjöwall was a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for her novels about the police detective Martin Beck. She wrote these novels in collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö.
