Paperback, 288 pages
Published May 7, 2007 by HarperPerennial.
Gunvald Larsson sits carefully observing the dingy Stockholm apartment of a man under police surveillance. He looks at his watch: nine minutes past eleven in the evening. He yawns, slapping his arms to keep warm. At the same moment the house explodes, killing at least three people. Chief Inspector Martin Beck and his men don't suspect arson or murder until they discover a peculiar circumstance and a link is established between the explosion and a suicide committed that same day, in which the dead man left a note consisting of just two words: Martin Beck.
I clicked on this in error looking for the next Colin Dexter book with Libby. It has a forward from him so that links it to him. Anyway I tried it and stayed up till one reading it last night. And finished this afternoon. It's authors are Swedish and set mostly in Stockholm in the 60's. With a dry sense of humor and and characters that might be mildly not so likable. I'll have to find others now.
