Cop Killer (book)

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Cop Killer (1973) is a novel by Sjöwall and Wahlöö in their detective series revolving around Martin Beck and his team. (Original Swedish title: Polismördaren.)

[edit] Plot

A woman is found murdered in Anderslöv, near Trelleborg in southern Sweden. Martin Beck is called in to investigate the crime. Meanwhile, a couple of youth criminals kills a policeman when they´re stopped driving a stolen car. While Martin Beck investigates the murder of the woman, Gunvald Larsson takes command of the hunt for the cop killers.

[edit] Characters and their development

Folke Bengtsson, the killer from the first Sjöwall and Wahlöö novel Roseanna returns as a suspect of the murder of the woman.

Hergott Nöjd is introduced as a character. He and Martin Beck develops a friendship during the investigations. Nöjd returns in the next Sjöwall and Wahlöö book The Terrorists

Lennart Kollberg resigns from the police force by the end of this book.

Preceded by The Locked Room

"Martin Beck" timeline, part 9 of 10

Succeeded by The Terrorists

Sjöwall and Wahlöö novels, featuring Martin Beck
Novels: Roseanna | The Man Who Went Up in Smoke | The Man on the Balcony | The Laughing Policeman | The Fire Engine That Disappeared | Murder at the Savoy | The Abominable Man | The Locked Room | Cop Killer | The Terrorists
Authors: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö