ROSEANNA

A laconic, graphic and relentless roman policier spends six months and nineteen days in nailing down the killer of a woman found naked on the breakwater of a medium sized Swedish harbor city. She had been strangled and sexually assaulted and some weeks later, via Interpol, she is identified as Roseanna McGraw, a librarian from Lincoln, Nebraska, rampantly promiscuous. Detective Inspector Martin Beck, obsessed by the case and as tenacious as Epoxy to begin with, picks up the occasional evidence (testimony; films; etc.) and finally stakes out and closes in on a psychopath....For the Simenon market—implacable realism and impeccable precision.