A review by amies808
Murder at the Savoy by Maj Sjöwall

3.0

I loved that the murder took place at a hotel I recently stayed at, and that I know most of the places mentioned in Malmo and Stockholm now after having vacationed those places recently (I actually bought my copy IN Stockholm). However, overall I felt like the plot moved slowly and the end felt very anticlimactic, especially because my version had another 75 pages... but it was all extra material and not some shocking twists and turns. Character development felt pretty flat - despite it being billed a Martin Beck novel, he felt secondary and I don’t really feel as if I know his personality. I liked the development of Månsson, though, and I kind of wish the story had been told from his point of view alone.