Maj Sjowall Books in Order

When a young woman's body is pulled from Lake Vättern, Martin Beck has no name, motive, or suspect. His slow search for the victim's identity leads back to a cruise and a tightly narrowed circle of passengers.

Martin Beck's vacation ends when Swedish journalist Alf Matsson disappears in Budapest. Sent abroad to find him, Beck uncovers dangerous underworld connections and a case that grows more threatening with every lead.

A killer stalks young girls in Stockholm's parks, leaving the city frightened and the police short of answers. Martin Beck races to connect two unlikely witnesses before another child is put in danger.

Nine people are shot on a Stockholm bus, including a detective from Beck's squad. Beck suspects the attack was targeted, not random, and follows the dead officer's unfinished work toward an older unsolved case.

An apartment explosion, a missing fire engine, and a dead man's cryptic note all point toward Martin Beck. As the clues begin to overlap, Beck must decide whether he is facing accident, suicide, or something far more deliberate.

Industrialist Viktor Palmgren is shot during a dinner speech at Malmö's Hotel Savoy. With no clear suspect, Martin Beck digs into the victim's dealings and finds a web of resentments that makes almost anyone seem capable of murder.

A police captain is murdered in his hospital room, exposing his long record of brutality. As Martin Beck searches Stockholm for the gunman, the case opens into a troubling investigation of violence and corruption within the police.

A bank robbery leaves a bystander dead, while across town a man is found shot inside a locked room with no weapon. Martin Beck sees two apparently separate crimes that may be part of one dangerous puzzle.

A woman is found murdered in a rural swamp as a nearby police shootout leaves officers and teenagers dead or wounded. Beck and Kollberg pursue the parallel cases through a community strained by fear and distrust.

Martin Beck leads security for an American senator's visit to Stockholm amid fears of an international terrorist attack. At the same time, he tries to clear a young woman accused of bank robbery while bureaucracy closes in.