description: On a quiet night a high-ranking police officer, Nyland, is slaughtered in his hospital bed, brutally massacred with a bayonet. It's not hard to find people with a motive to kill him - in fact, the problem for Detective Inspector Martin Beck is how to narrow the list down to just one suspect.
language: English
title: Abominable Man
titlecomplete: Abominable Man
characters: Martin Beck
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Thriller, Nordic Noir, Swedish Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective
ratings_count: 5505
places: Sweden
series: Martin Beck 
publisher: Amereon Ltd