The Rise of Scandinavian Crime Fiction — theculturetrip.com

The 1975 Swedish novel The Terrorists follows detective Martin Beck’s attempts to thwart an assassination attempt on a visiting American politician. The tenth in a book series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, the book discusses the Swedish state’s failure to ameliorate inequality. At the book’s close, one detective summarises the authors’ take on social conflict: ‘putting the police in the vanguard of violence is like putting the cart before the horse.’

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