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Three years ago a friend recommended a book collector Swedish book written in 1967 by some authors are difficult to pronounce and, at the time, too difficult to remember for me. There began my "fever" for the thriller, a passion that continues today, highlighted by the convenience of using an electronic book reader. Just one year

after my "encounter with Sweden in the 60" in summer 2008, published in Spain's first novel in the trilogy Millennium , Stieg Larsson, and with it the subsequent emergence of works by other authors Nordic Jo Nesbø, Åsa Larsson, Camilla Läckberg, Mari Jungstedt, etc, etc, etc, which are having such an impact in our country (and elsewhere).

But back to the beginning, Sweden, 60's, in the coldest of the cold war, inspired by the best American crime novel but with a touch slow and cold that only the Swedes know how to give, marriage journalists and writers Maj and Per Sjöwall Wahlöö are started in 1965 with the first novel in the Inspector Martin Beck series, entitled Roseanna , then it all started.

The series, which would be extended until his death, Per Wahlöö in 1975, has ten novels, surely all great (I've only been able to read so far the first six).

Roseanna (Roseanna , 1965), The man who vanished ( Mannen som gick upp i Rök , 1966), Man of the balcony (Mannen på balkongen , 1967), The Laughing Policeman (Den skrattande Polisen , 1968), The fire engine that disappeared ( Brandbilen försvann som, 1969), Murder at the Savoy ( Polis, polis , Potato! , 1970), A being abominable ( Den mannen från vedervärdige Säffle , 1971), The house closed ( Det slutna rummet , 1972), Death of a police ( Polismördaren , 1974) and Terrorists ( Terroristerna , 1975).

Each is immersed in a convoluted case checker resolved by Beck, but at the same time, the authors illustrate perfectly the reality of Swedish society during those years and criticize the false bucolic image of Sweden. Every novel based on crime novels and all together make a great crime (hence the subtitle "The Story of a crime"): the "crime" that runs ten Martin Beck novels is none other than the Social betraying working class.

We begin here a series of loans of books ... in the first comment, who we want to pay the book, let us link to loan the first major Swedish crime novel, Roseanna , Maj and Per Sjöwall Wahlöö. If you want more, and continue ... (Epub format, can be read with Adobe Digital Editions which is free, or translated to other formats with the program, also free, Calibre ).