On routine patrol, two officers discover three criminals in possession of a significant quantity of explosives. The officers are murdered without provocation. Now, Martin Beck and his team are compelled to work tirelessly, racing against ti…

The discovery was grim: a man, dead from a single, precise stab wound. But it was the mutilation of his face that sent a shock through the investigators. His wife, questioned in the immediate aftermath, offered a perplexing detail – she had…

The owner of a Greek restaurant met a brutal end, a victim of savage torture and murder. Beck and his team were tasked with unraveling the circumstances, finding themselves inexorably pulled into a shadowy realm of illicit trade, veiled thr…

The body of an Asian woman was discovered in the waters of the Stockholm archipelago. Evidence suggests she was murdered, and that her profession was that of a prostitute. Simultaneously, a string of burglaries had plagued an island just ou…

Detective Martin Beck, along with Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander, are called upon to unravel the perplexing murder of an accountant discovered shot dead in the airport parking lot. Simultaneously, a reporter receives a cryptic package f…

He found them through advertisements posted on public noticeboards, and then he violated them. Initially, the case appeared straightforward for Martin Beck and his team, a crime easily untangled. But they soon realized the perpetrator’s mot…

The mother of an autistic son was discovered dead in her home. A blood-stained object, the instrument of her death, lay clutched in the boy's hands.

A chilling wave of murders grips Stockholm. The victims, discovered with their faces grotesquely dissolved by acid, send a shudder through the city. Detective Martin Beck and his colleague Gunvald Larsson find themselves once more plunged i…