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A review by brontebucket
Cop Killer by Maj Sjöwall
4.0
I really enjoyed this book and finished it quite quickly. There always seem to be two Strands to the stories - in this one the disappearance/ murder of Sigrit and the botched robbery by 2 young kids which went wrong and one of them shot a policeman. Stockholm itself is a character in the book which is portrayed as a beautiful but dangerous place with high suicide rate and lack of jobs. The action also moves to Skane, Southern Sweden, for this book which is nice as it is Wallander territory!
At the end of the book Becks colleague Kollberg resigns. He doesn’t believe police should carry guns and Malm his superior is all about tooling the police up and sending in disproportionally large numbers of police to incidents when it is not necessary. Kollberg believes police being armed creates a more violent society. As the authors have written this series of 10 books as a 10 year book then the resourcing of the police has been a theme. At this point there is no end of money in the force and they all have shiny new cars although a picture is painted of a disaffected society with low employment for young people and lots of crime. A far cry from agony ABBA!!!
At the end of the book Becks colleague Kollberg resigns. He doesn’t believe police should carry guns and Malm his superior is all about tooling the police up and sending in disproportionally large numbers of police to incidents when it is not necessary. Kollberg believes police being armed creates a more violent society. As the authors have written this series of 10 books as a 10 year book then the resourcing of the police has been a theme. At this point there is no end of money in the force and they all have shiny new cars although a picture is painted of a disaffected society with low employment for young people and lots of crime. A far cry from agony ABBA!!!