A review by kate66
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Maj Sjöwall

3.0

I've come to the conclusion that this series isn't my sort of thing at all. I don't know if it's the seeming oddity of the crimes or the descriptions of the people or what. To be honest I just want to give everyone in them a good shake. They all do a fair bit of complaining about everything but don't ever change. There's also the translation which seems clunky at times and the repeated use of Beck's full name- he's rarely just Beck, never Martin but usually Martin Beck no matter how many times his name has been mentioned before. I find it a tad irritating.

So I've read two and I've still to work out what everyone else enjoys about them. Back to Agatha Christie, Henkell Manning, Vaseem Khan and Ragnar Jonasson for me.