Maj Sjöwall - Martin Beck author, dies aged 84

[redsquirrel]

Excellent crime novelist, the Beck books are great and totally changed crime fiction.
Guardian story

Maj Sjöwall, one half of a Swedish crime-writing couple credited with inventing the “Nordic noir” genre, has died aged 84, her publisher said on Wednesday.
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With her partner Per Wahloo, who died in 1975, Sjöwall penned a 10-book series centred on the dour, middle-aged and decidedly unheroic Martin Beck and his team of detectives in Stockholm’s National Homicide Bureau.

 

[twistedAM]

That's sad. I've read the whole Beck series twice. As you say, hugely influential.

 

[danny la rouge]

Sad news. I love those books. And the “solo” work too. I may start them yet again, in tribute.

 

[The39thStep]

Used to love those books

 

[chilango]

Was reading the first one, but have misplaced it. Will kindle them at some point.

 

[redsquirrel]

If anyone isn't familiar with them the radio adaptations starring Steven Mackintosh are also excellent (and pretty faithful to the books)

 

[imposs1904]

Loved the Beck books.