Description: Vintage announces the re-launch of the Martin Beck Police Mystery series, with new jackets and fresh introductions from some of the biggest names in Crime Fiction today. All ten books from Edgar Award-winners Sjwall and Wahl will be forthcoming in paperback in the next few seasons. Enormously satisfying.... Terse, tense, and eminently readable.--"Chicago Tribune"
Review Quotes: "A modern classic. . . . Lively, stylistically taut . . . Sjöwall and Wahlöö changed the genre." --Henning Mankell, from the introduction
"A wonderfully tough and pleasantly chilling tale . . . told without a wasted word."--Harper's "One of the most authentic, gripping and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished."--Michael Connelly "Superb suspense. . . . Let no mystery authority worth the appellation miss Roseanna. . . . I have never read a finer police story." --Dorothy B. Hughes, Los Angeles Times "The first great series of police thriller....Truly exciting."--Michael Ondaatje"Sjöwall and Wahlöö are the best writers of police procedural in the world."--Birmingham Post