BBC Radio 4

Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö’s 10-book series featuring detective Martin Beck and his colleagues in the National Police Homicide Department in Stockholm.

The Martin Beck Series

A 10-book series featuring detective Martin Beck and his colleagues in Stockholm.
Roseanna

The body of an attractive young woman is dredged from the Gota Canal.
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

A journalist has vanished without trace in Budapest & Beck is drawn into the underworld.
The Man On The Balcony

Someone is assaulting and killing young girls in the parks of Stockholm.
The Laughing Policeman

The killing of passengers on a Stockholm bus leads Beck back to an unsolved case.
The Fire Engine that Disappeared

The apartment of a suspect being staked out by one of Beck’s team explodes.
Murder At The Savoy

A business man is shot in front of a dozen witnesses in a hotel restaurant.
The Abominable Man

A brutal senior policeman is murdered with a sabre while he lies in a hospital bed.
The Locked Room

Larsson and Kollberg are assigned to a spree of bank robberies.
Cop Killer

After a murder in Anderslöv, Beck revisits the murderer he put away in "Roseanna".
The Terrorists

An eighteen-year old woman is accused of a bank robbery she never intended to commit.