Amazon says:
The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler.On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a murderer with a distinctive--indeed, terrifying--sense of propriety..

This is a very special book for me: In 1977 I've got it from a Swedish boy whom I met during my holidays. I was 14 years old and the book spent 37 years with me. But I never achieved reading this book... 

Now the day has come and the book may travel to a woman who is 37 years old :-)

A Swedish book in English, because I saw that you have the German title "Die Tote im Götakanal" on your wishlist and you also read English books :-)

Liebe Za-ida, vielen lieben Dank für diese Überraschung! Zu Weihnachten hatte es das Buch nicht mehr geschafft, aber ich freue mich auch jetzt sehr darüber. :-))

Ich bin ein zu digitales Wesen geworden und komme einfach nicht dazu, gute alte Paperbacks zu lesen. Von daher stelle ich das Buch lieber auf AVL. Wer will noch mal, wer hat noch nicht?