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A review by tcorder
Cop Killer by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
1.0
1 1/2 stars.
Personally, I'm scratching my head over all of the great reviews for this book. I admit that it starts off fairly well with the murder of a divorced woman who's body is hidden in the woods and the subsequent search for her killer. Unfortunately, about half way through the book the authors suddenly start up an, apparently, completely different story about two youths involved in a shoot-out with police and the search for one of the survivors of that incident.
It is at this point that they take the long way around, by way of Coincidenceville, to tie the two threads together and solve the mystery of who committed the murder at the beginning of the book. Add to this the schizophrenic feel of the final few chapters - it's a murder mystery, no it's a police procedural, no it's a man-hunt, no it's a slapstick farce, no it's a diatribe against the Swedish police who are nothing more than a bunch of lazy bastards/thugs/incompetents - and what started out being a well-written, engaging mystery turns into a forced, unbelievable, disappointing mess.
Personally, I'm scratching my head over all of the great reviews for this book. I admit that it starts off fairly well with the murder of a divorced woman who's body is hidden in the woods and the subsequent search for her killer. Unfortunately, about half way through the book the authors suddenly start up an, apparently, completely different story about two youths involved in a shoot-out with police and the search for one of the survivors of that incident.
It is at this point that they take the long way around, by way of Coincidenceville, to tie the two threads together and solve the mystery of who committed the murder at the beginning of the book. Add to this the schizophrenic feel of the final few chapters - it's a murder mystery, no it's a police procedural, no it's a man-hunt, no it's a slapstick farce, no it's a diatribe against the Swedish police who are nothing more than a bunch of lazy bastards/thugs/incompetents - and what started out being a well-written, engaging mystery turns into a forced, unbelievable, disappointing mess.