Roseanna [sound recording] / Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ; translated from the Swedish by Lois Roth.
Material type: SoundPublisher number: BBCD 437 | AudioGOSpoken language: English Original language: Swedish Series: Sjöwall, Maj, Martin Beck mystery series ; Publication details: North Kingstown, RI : AudioGO, p2013.Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 1 sound disc (1 hr., 13 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 1471317404
- 1624605583
- 9781471317408
- 9781624605581
- Roseanna. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Audiobook | Main Library | Audiobook | MYSTERY Sjowall Maj | Available | 33111007455864 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Martin Beck books are widely acknowledged as some of the most influential detective novels ever written. Written by Swedish husband and wife team Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö between 1965-1975, the ten-book series set a gold standard for all subsequent Scandanavian crime fiction. Long before Kurt Wallander or Harry Hole, Beck was the original flawed policeman, working with a motley collection of colleagues to uncover the cruelty and injustice lurking beneath the surface of Sweden's seemingly liberal, democratic society. In Roseanna , adapted from the first book in the series, the body of an attractive young woman is dredged from the Gota Canal. Beck and his team have to narrow down the list of suspects from 85 cruise passengers, in an investigation that ends with a risky and frightening sting... Translated by Lois Roth and dramatised by Jennifer Howarth.
1 CD. 1 hr 14 mins.
Compact disc.
Duration: 1:13:00.
In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
Various readers.
The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler. On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues, Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a murderer with a distinctive--indeed, terrifying--sense of propriety.