Maj Sjöwall

The family: Martin investigates a gangland shooting in which a kingpin is shot and killed at home in front of his family. The invasion: Two bodies buried outside Stockholm remain unidentified until Beck's team finds reason to believe they were victims of conflict within an Islamist terrorist cell. The hospital murders: Beck investigates the death of an elderly woman in a Stockholm hospital, where the primary suspect appears to be her oncologist. Gunvald:...

The vulture: The Swedish Sports Minister, who seems to have been living a double life, has disappeared. The attorney: The murder of a prominent attorney may be linked to a recent case in which he was suing a company for serious environmental damage. The Japanese painting: A German colleague of Beck, who is in Stockholm to purchase a rare Japanese painting, discovers a dead woman in his hotel room.

Blind profit: In horrific murders around Stockholm, victims are having their faces dissolved by acid, at the same time that Beck suffers a cardiac incident and is ordered to take it easy. The scorpion: When the body of a man is discovered in an abandoned house, his family flees and refuses to come out of hiding. The unclaimed girl: A five-year-old girl is found dead in a root cellar and a man living nearby kills himself and leaves a suicide note...

The eye of the storm: When the charred remains of a woman are found, Swedish Security Services order Martin to arrest his friend for involvement in her murder. Buried alive: Martin and his team are caught up in a cat-and-mouse game with a killer who buries his victims alive in wooden boxes. Room 302: Beck's team meets their new boss as the body of a young women is found in a Stockholm hotel room and a SWAT team ordered by the boss brings disastrous...

He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away... for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across. "The decoy boy: After the bodies of two immigrant boys are discovered,...

The money man: The double life of a homosexual police officer leads to a showdown between Beck and Gavling, aka The Money Man, a notorious underworld kingpin. Night vision: A decapitated commuter on the last subway of the night leads to a gang of young computer enthusiasts who have transformed the Underground into a real-life video game. The revenge: Beck and his team must locate criminals who have killed two police officers during a theft of a...