The Laughing Policeman

Name: The Laughing Policeman
Author: Maj Sjöwall

by Maj Sjöwall

Serial shooter hunts police in dark Swedish procedural crime investigation

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Maj Sjöwall

Maj Sjöwall, writing with her partner Per Wahlöö, created the Martin Beck series, the founding texts of modern Scandinavian crime fiction. Their explicitly Marxist police procedurals used the detective novel as a vehicle for radical social criticism. Their influence on all subsequent Nordic crime writing is immeasurable.

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