Book 86: "Roseanna" by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

[kittiwake]

The first of the ten Martin Beck police procedurals concerns the rape and murder of a woman whose body is dredged up from the Göta Canal at Motala. Before the age of the fax machine and the mobile phone, the investigation proceeds at a slow pace, with information from other European countries and the States taking days if not weeks to reach the Stockholm police.

The book mentioned Söderköping a few times (a small town on the canal where I holidayed a few years ago), and reminded me that I would like to do the Göta Canal boat trip someday, although I would hope to make it all the way to Gothenburg, unlike Roseanna.