Peter Haber
Author
Series
Beck volume 1
Language
Swedish
Description
The body of a man is discovered in an abandoned house. The man's wife and their two children have fled the scene and refuse to come out of hiding. After Martin Beck tracks the woman down, he understands why she wants to keep her case out of the hands of the police.
Author
Series
Beck volume 5
Language
Swedish
Description
Beck and his team investigate the murder of an accountant at an airport parking lot. Meanwhile, a reporter receives an anonymous tip regarding the embezzling of funds earmarked for repairing nuclear reactors.
Author
Series
Beck volume 1
Language
Swedish
Description
Two patrolling police officers are killed after stumbling onto criminals who have just stolen large amounts of explosives. Detective Martin Beck and his team must locate the suspects before it's too late.
Author
Series
Beck volume 6
Language
Swedish
Description
Responding to an anonymous threat, the Stockholm bomb squad detonates a suspicious suitcase. Inside the tattered remains, they discover the body of an infant. Beck leads the investigation to hunt down the man responsible for the grizzly set-up, a man the newspapers call The Monster.
Author
Series
Beck volume 8
Language
Swedish
Description
A commuter on the last subway of the night is found decapitated. Beck uncovers a gang of young computer freaks who have transformed the entire underground into a hellish, real-life video game where innocent people become targets.
Author
Series
Beck volume 8
Language
Swedish
Description
A paparazzi photographer is found dead, his apartment ransacked. When Beck's superior Margareta Oberg goes through the evidence, she reacts strongly to two of the images left behind, going so far as to hide them from the team.
Author
Series
Beck volume 5
Language
Swedish
Description
Martin Beck gets a phone call from a German colleague visiting Stockholm for an art auction. He's found a dead woman in his hotel, and needs Martin's help. The murder investigation brings Beck's team into the world of art fraud.
Author
Series
Beck volume 6
Language
Swedish
Description
A rapist and murderer is targeting women through personal ads on public bulletin boards. Beck's not comfortable with it, but he lets Alice go undercover and pose as someone answering the latest ad.
Author
Series
Beck volume 7
Language
Swedish
Description
The double-life of a homosexual police officer leads to a showdown between Beck and his arch-enemy Gavling, a.k.a. The Money Man - a notorious kingpin in the underworld of Stockholm.
Author
Series
Beck volume 2
Language
Swedish
Description
An elderly woman is found murdered. The prime suspect is her husband, a deeply-religious man who collects Russian icons. His grief appears genuine, but his story doesn't check out.
Author
Series
Beck volume 2
Language
Swedish
Description
A man is found stabbed to death. The man's widow claims a mysterious foreigner knocked on their door the day before the murder, but is that the real story?
Author
Series
Beck volume 4
Language
Swedish
Description
An Asian woman is found murdered in the waters of Stockholm's archipelago. Meanwhile a series of break-ins has occurred on an island outside of Stockholm, and a retired old man is discovered dead in his own yard.
Author
Series
Beck volume 4
Language
Swedish
Description
The murder of a prominent attorney is connected to one of his recent cases, in which a company was being sued for serious environmental damage. Martin Beck and Lena Klingstrom find evidence which brings new light to the investigation – but who's pulling the strings?
Author
Series
Beck volume 1
Language
Swedish
Description
After the bodies of two immigrant boys are discovered, the police received an anonymous message from a group called the Swedish Front: "The slaughter has begun." Martin Beck and his team find a lead through a website where young boys are sold for sex, but time is running out for locating the next victim.
Author
Series
Beck volume 7
Language
Swedish
Description
Two girls are hit by a train and killed instantly. Martin Beck and his team have to figure out if it was murder or double suicide.
Author
Series
Beck volume 7
Language
Swedish
Description
The mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. Gunvald finds her non-verbal son naked in a closet, covered in blood and holding the murder weapon.
Author
Series
Beck volume 5
Language
Swedish
Description
A young girl dies after being hit by a car driven by Beck's trusted deputy Gunvald Larsson. Meanwhile, a taxi explodes at a ferry terminal on the Baltic coast. Beck needs Gunvald's help to crack the case — but he needs to bring him back from the brink.
Author
Series
Beck volume 2
Language
Swedish
Description
A five-year-old girl is found dead in a root cellar. When a man living nearby kills himself and leaves a letter apologizing for his pedophilia, the case seems closed. But Beck can't understand why no local family has reported a child missing.
Author
Series
Beck volume 4
Language
Swedish
Description
A serial killer is on the loose. All the victims are women, and all attended the same school. Beck digs deep into a past no one wants to re-live, in an effort to prevent the ultimate act of revenge.
Author
Series
Beck volume 3
Language
Swedish
Description
A Greek restaurant owner is brutally tortured and killed. Beck and his team investigate, and are drawn into a world of smuggling, threats and violence.
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