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Locked and bolted? Crime always finds a way...

Fifteen months after a serious gunshot wound, Martin Beck returns to the police force with reluctance. He has had plenty of time to reflect on his life and work, only to realize that he is dissatisfied with both. To spare him, Commissioner Beck is assigned a seemingly straightforward case: a retired man has shot himself. However, no weapon is found in the deceased's apartment. Did the man have a chance to dispose of the weapon after the shot? Or was it the act of someone else? But how could a murderer have left the apartment, which was locked and bolted from the inside? This is the eighth volume of the world-famous series featuring Swedish Commissioner Martin Beck. In a new translation and with a foreword by Håkan Nesser.