Reviews

• “Most effective.”

• “The Martin Beck books are exemplary police procedurals …The Abominable Man is worthy of its predecessors in this much-admired series.”

• “They have produced another of their best-of-year in The Abominable Man.”

• “One of the most exciting Martin Beck mysteries yet. … The characterizations are excellent, the dogged police work convincingly realistic and the outcome a real shocker. Not to be missed by any connoisseur of the best in detective fiction.”

• “Perhaps the best is Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo’s new thriller, The Abominable Man.”

• “The Wahlöö’s, gentle, deeply absorbed in one another with bright flashes of humor, are the best-selling man-and-wife writing team who have glued audience in England and America among readers who crave their novels, with a Dostoevskian eve for the complicity of all society in crime.”

• “It is a pleasure to report that Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo are in peak form with The Abominable Man. … The Abominable Man is a superb rendering of the police force within a decaying society, and a frightening portrait of madness rooted in respectability.”

• “The Abominable Man is an unflinching, disturbing novel, one of the very best by two of the best.”

• “Memorable.”

• “Tense and gripping.”

• “A nicely paced police procedural novel which has the authentic police station smell.”

• “Another profusely exciting crime novel with a generous dose of social criticism, by Sjöwall/Wahlöö.”

• “The leading crime authors in the world.”

• “An explosive detective novel.”

• “A bullseye hit once again! /…/ Just as harshly realistic, unbearably exciting and skilfully constructed as The Laughing Policeman.”