num_pages: 192
description: Someone is killing young girls in the once-peaceful parks of Stockholm -- killing them after having his way. The people of Stockholm are tense and fearful. Police Superintendent Martin Beck has two a cold-blooded mugger who won't say much and a three-year-old boy who can't say much. The dedicated work of the police force seems to be leading nowhere, and with each passing day, the likelihood of another murder grows. But then Beck remembers someone -- or something -- he overheard.A quietly relentless thriller, The Man on the Balcony juxtaposes the most inhuman of crimes with the humanity of the men who must solve it -- their perseverance, frustration, and horror -- resulting in a police procedural that is as moving and credible as it is enthralling.
language: English
title: The Man on the Balcony
titlecomplete: The Man on the Balcony (Martin Beck, #3)
characters: Einar Rönn, Martin Beck, Lennart Kollberg, Gunvald Larsson
genres: Sweden, Noir, Mystery, Crime, Nordic Noir, Swedish Literature, Detective, Thriller, Fiction, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 7334
places: Sweden
series: Martin Beck 
publisher: Vintage