Spår i mörker

Spår i mörker is a competent thriller with a screenplay by Rolf Börjlind, who, independently of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's novels, has written several crime stories featuring the duo Martin Beck and Gunvald Larsson as protagonists.

Just as the policeman Martin Beck is about to go on holiday with his colleague and girlfriend Lena, a brutal murder is committed in the Stockholm underground - and then another. Both victims have been decapitated, and there are indications that the crimes took place in the dark. Under pressure from Lena, Beck reluctantly breaks off his well-earned holiday to assist in solving the two murders - and those that follow.

Beck and his superior are, however, at loggerheads over how the case should be tackled, and at first Beck's superior takes him off the case, but he is not one to shelve such a gruesome case just like that.

Typically Swedish, one would be inclined to say of this realistic and gloomy contemporary crime drama, which the Dane Morten Arnfred has in fact directed with a good feel for creepiness and suspense.