Backstrom: He Who Kills the Dragon

From a master of Scandinavian crime fiction—the first in a brilliant series of novels centered around the investigations of one irascible, obdurate, and very thirsty Swedish police officer: Detective Superintendent Evert Bäckström of the National Murder Squad.

Detective Bäckström is Persson's persistently repulsive yet undeniably brilliant comic creation—an unforgettable cop winding his way through the black comedy of a crime scene, and managing to upset nearly everyone in the process.When ...