
Roseanna
A Martin Beck Mystery
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Narrated by:
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Tom Weiner
As the melancholic Beck narrows down the list of likely suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for the casual sexual encounter, and to the psychopathology of a murderer with a distinctive - indeed, terrifying - sense of propriety.
With its authentically rendered settings, vividly realized characters, and command over the intricately interwoven details of police detection, Roseanna is a masterpiece of suspense and sadness.
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Where does Roseanna rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
top 5What did you like best about this story?
character development & plotWhat about Tom Weiner’s performance did you like?
He can do all the voices without pause--male-female-old man young man, etc. Very believable.Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Unraveling the whodunit of the plot.Any additional comments?
I highly recommend this series!Best classic Swedish crime fiction
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Loved the Title
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Loved it!
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Deadpan Swedish police procedural from the 60s
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There have been many detective novels, and many of them are procedurals, but few of them get to the heart of the subgenre as well as Roseanna. A dead woman is found. What’s known is that she was murdered, and what’s unknown is everything else. Detective Martin Beck pursues the case patiently, and the facts emerge like a developing photograph: her name, her personality, and eventually, her last day alive.
This is the Martin Beck series firing on all cylinders. The characterizations are well done. Neither plot nor prose have much fat on them. The politics which I felt weakened the later series is absent. The realism level is pretty high: this isn’t about gunfights, deductive genius, or forensic super-science. It’s about a decent man, with an interesting job and a sputtering marriage, applying his experience to a knotty problem. Lastly, there’s a wonderful sense of setting. Beck and his colleagues evoke 1960’s Sweden every bit as much as Sherlock Holmes evokes Victorian England.
I’m surprised that the reading is love-it-or-hate-it. I loved it. I can’t comment on the pronunciations, but I felt Weiner nailed everything else. The clipped, restrained way he read highlighted both setting and the cerebral nature of the story. When it came time to shift gears and emote, he did so very well. His characters were generally spot on. The only interpretation I disagreed with was one of the suspects. I took him to be robot-like; Weiner interpreted him as Swedish Dracula.
All in all, 5 Stars. I was so glad to come across this old favorite that I paused my current read to enjoy it. Now I’ll keep that first book paused and start The Man Who Went Up In Smoke.
Taut Novel, Excellent Narrator
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A great novel
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It's an okay detective novel.
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Roseanna
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Disliked format in police interviews
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very abrupt storytelling
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