A review by brontebucket
Det slutna rummet by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö

3.0

Good but not my favourite one in the series. Two threads to the book with the mystery of the dead man in the Locked Room and a sprightly if armed robberies in the City. Beck is back from time-out rehabilitation having been shot in previous book. Hw is cutting his teeth on the Locked Room investigation which his boss Malm thinks is pointless. Kollberg and others are in the bank robberies. We are introduced to henchmen from Germany and also the mastermind of the robberies. The book got better as it moved on. It had a good twist at the end and was all brought together very well.

There had been talk of Beck being promoted to Commissioner which he didn’t want as a desk job but it was felt he was not ‘back to normal’ after his obsession with the Locked Room. He was happy not to be promoted. Not all detectives want to be managers!