Character guide · 10 books · 1965 to 1975 · Set in Stockholm

Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

Crime and mysteryPolice procedural Golden Age

Swedish partners Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö wrote ten novels about detective Martin Beck and his Stockholm colleagues, a planned "story of a crime" that used the police procedural to examine Swedish society. They are the founding books of Nordic crime fiction.

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