Beck

A brutally battered woman, Monika, manages to flee from her home with her two children. Later, the body of a dead man is found in the same house. The murder was preceded by an assault; bloodstains found in the kitchen correspond to Monika's DNA. The Beck team do everything they possibly can to find Monika and her two sons.

A little girl is found dead in an abandoned earth cellar. She lies neatly tucked in with freshly prepared food beside her; but the forensic examination shows that she has been dead for some time. No child has been reported missing. Who is she? How did she end up in that place? Who has put fresh food out for an obviously dead child?

John Vedén, the former Minister of sports, vanishes without a trace after he has attended a late meeting held at the offices of the Social Democratic Party. Since Margareta Oberg is a close friend of Vedén she assigns Martin Beck and his colleagues to investigate his disappearance.

The star lawyer, Patrik Hansson, is brutally murdered in his flat. When the Beck team are put on the case they discover a clear motive for the murder. Hansson was just about to round up a case against a multinational company and he had a good chance of winning. When Beck and his colleagues start to unravel Hansson's life it soon turns out that he wasn't completely unblemished.

Martin Beck gets a phone call at home from his German colleague, Hans Sperling. Sperling is in Stockholm to buy a painting at an auction. Sperling has found a murdered woman in the hotel where he is staying. The murdered woman was shot and is lying in her bed with red roses set around her body, everything arranged like in a well-known Chagall painting.

It is late at night in a deserted park. A young woman has been brutally raped and murdered. The persons who discovered the body are the young woman's parents. A man suddenly appears at the crime scene. Could he have something to do with the murder? And who is the mysterious person wearing a hooded jacket that he claims he saw in the park?

A train hurtles through the dark night. An ordinary shift for the engine driver. Suddenly the monotonous calm and peace are thrown into complete chaos. Two girls are lying on the rails.

A paparazzi photographer is found brutally murdered. His photo studio has been ransacked. Computers and cameras are missing. Was it a robbery that went wrong? A settling of scores for a drug deal? Or had the murdered photographer discovered and taken photos of something so sensitive that he had to be killed? The motives and clues are very sparse.