Between 1965 and 1975 Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö wrote a series of novels about a Stockholm detective named Martin Beck. The ten books in the series were conceived of as a whole, and intended as a Marxist critique of the bourgeois neo-liberal welfare state. They go in and out of print in the US, and are worth grabbing when you see a copy-- they don't really need to be read in sequence. I'd never seen a photograph of the authors until today, via the invaluable
If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger. Swedish noir at its finest.
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