Description: Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery, the chilling third novel in the Martin Beck series finds Beck investigating a string of brutal muggings and child murders.
Review Quotes: "The first great series of police thrillers.... Truly exciting." --Michael Ondaatje
"Hauntingly effective storytelling." --The New York Times Book Review "Sjöwall and Wahlöö write unsparingly and unswervingly.... Their plots are second to none." --Val McDermid "It's hard to think of any other thriller writers (apart from Simenon perhaps) who can capture so much of a society in a couple of hundred pages and yet still hold true to the thriller form." --Sean and Nicci French