Roseanna

Roseanna
Henning Mankell

Maj Sjowall

Per Wahloo

Roseanna is the first book in the hugely acclaimed Martin Beck series: the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime fiction and influenced writers from Stieg Larrson to Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell to Lars Kepplar.On a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from a lake in southern Sweden. Raped and murdered, she is naked, unmarked and carries no sign of her identity. As Detective Inspector Martin Beck slowly begins to make the connections that will bring her identity to light, he uncovers a series of crimes further reaching than he ever would have imagined and a killer far more dangerous. How much will Beck be prepared to risk to catch him?

Copyright (#u9c18454e-0e56-5b0c-af24-b584e1900a74)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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This ebook first published by Harper Perennial in 2006

This 4th Estate edition published in 2016

First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1968

Originally published in Stockholm, Sweden, by P. A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag

Copyright text © Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö 1965

Copyright introduction © Henning Mankell 2006

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Source ISBN: 9780007232833

Ebook Edition © JANUARY 2014 ISBN: 9780007324378

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From the reviews of the Martin Beck series: (#u9c18454e-0e56-5b0c-af24-b584e1900a74)

‘First class’ Daily Telegraph

‘One of the most authentic, gripping and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished’ MICHAEL CONNELLY

‘Hauntingly effective storytelling’ New York Times

‘There's just no question about it: the reigning King and Queen of mystery fiction are Maj Sjöwall and her husband Per Wahlöö’ The National Observer

‘Sjöwall/Wahlöö are the best writers of police procedural in the world’ Birmingham Post

Contents

Cover (#u542b7d9d-ab50-5382-b15e-12552065e678)

Title Page (#u42b0e1cd-fb41-5908-8a81-f52aaa29a7ab)

Copyright (#u37814f1c-3005-50b5-8075-769bb26e94db)

Praise (#u92383c2a-63c4-50b2-b12f-8a912b0c5585)

Introduction (#ube646222-0263-5608-85de-f156edb3f588)

Chapter 1 (#u02b87122-2667-53fc-a66e-8e2dee76b971)

Chapter 2 (#u02cf6145-c5fe-5f19-a830-487ff7aeba57)

Chapter 3 (#u5b35f8e2-9c3c-5c68-9a69-43959cfcee79)

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Chapter 6 (#u3e561b01-2036-5865-ac6d-c267c17e1513)

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Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)