Cop KillerIn a Swedish country town, a woman is brutally murdered and left buried in a swamp. On a quiet suburban street a midnight shootout takes place between three cops and two teenage boys. Detective Inspector Martin Beck and his partner Lennart Kollberg are called in on both cases. In the unfamiliar small town setting, they encounter figures from their earlier cases

He was a twenty-one year old

But the dead man found in a narrowboat on the Forth and Clyde Canal

JOHN MEYER FREY DIES AWAITING EXECUTION ON DEATH ROW

To rescue him

Set in and around the dark

claws and muscles

Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law

The Omegas live in segregation

finally fell to American troops after a bitter struggle in June 1945

Often writing in a vibrant Glaswegian vernacular

and since then the mantle of Presidency has passed to some of the most significant names in the history of crime fiction

Wade Darling stands accused of killing his wife and teenage children as they slept before burning the family home to the ground