The naked body of a young woman is dredged up from a Swedish canal. She has been sexually assaulted and strangled. But no one has reported her missing and Martin Beck of the Stockholm homicide squad can find no clue to her identity. The investigation, however, soon comes to a troubling conclusion.
The naked body of a young woman is dredged up from a Swedish canal. She has been sexually assaulted and strangled. But no one has reported her missing...
Detective Martin Beck has just begun his holiday on a small island off the coast of Sweden. But when a neighbour gets a phone call, Beck finds himself packed off to Budapest, where a boorish journalist has vanished without a trace.
Detective Martin Beck has just begun his holiday on a small island off the coast of Sweden. But when a neighbour gets a phone call, Beck finds himself...
'The Man on the Balcony' balances the most inhuman of crimes with the humanity of the men who must solve it, resulting in a police procedural that is as moving and credible as it is enthralling.
'The Man on the Balcony' balances the most inhuman of crimes with the humanity of the men who must solve it, resulting in a police procedural that is ...
