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Within the penultimate installment of this masterful crime-fiction series, Martin Beck, now mind of the Country wide Murder Squad, is called in to a sleepy area of the countryside to investigate a woman's disappearance. What Beck doesn't know is the fact that the woman was already murdered, her body dumped in a swamp. At the same time, a midnight shoot-out between three cops and two teenage guys ends with one policeman deceased.
As Beck and his partner, Lennart Kollberg, investigate both conditions, they encounter two figures from other earlier conditions. Folke Bengtsson, the convicted killer from the first novel of the series (Roseanna), has been released. Since that murder distributed many characteristics with Beck's present case, Beck comes under pressure to arrest Bengtsson. But Beck has begun to doubt that Bengtsson was guilty of any murder in any way. The mass media swarms over the little town and one of the journalists is the man who was convicted of murder in the next novel of the series (The Man Who Gone Up In Smoke cigars). The occurrence of these two killers, one who might not exactly be guilty in any way and another who killed by accident, increases a theme from previous catalogs: there will vary sorts of murder and various sorts of guilt.
The fugitive ''cop killer'' will accidentally provide the treatment for Martin Beck's murder case but that isn't really important. What matters is the juxtaposition of the sleepy countryside with the violent city and the strain between the ever decreasing range of capable cops and the growing range of incompetent or corrupt ones.
