A paparazzi photographer gets brutally murdered in Stockholm. His apartment is searched and the computer together with photo equipment is missing.

警探马丁·贝克和他性格古怪的搭档冈瓦尔德·拉尔森，在瑞典斯德哥尔摩着手侦破一起连环谋杀案。

警探马丁·贝克与古怪搭档冈瓦尔德·拉尔森，在瑞典斯德哥尔摩侦破连环谋杀案。

一位国家部委的项目处长被人举报受贿千万，当最高人民检察院反贪总局侦查处处长 侯亮平前来搜查时，看到的却是一位长相憨厚、衣着朴素的“老农民”在简陋破败的旧房里吃炸酱面。当这位腐败分子的面具被最终撕开的同时，与该案件牵连甚紧的汉东省 京州市 （虚拟地名）副市长 丁义珍，却在一位神秘人物的暗中相助下，以反侦察手段逃脱法网，流亡海外。案件线索终定位于由京州光明峰项目引发的一家汉东省国企大风服装厂的股权争夺，牵连其中的各派政治势力却盘根错节，扑朔迷离。汉东省检察院反贪局长 陈海在调查行动中遭遇离奇的车祸。为了完成当年同窗的未竟事业，精明干练的 侯亮平临危受命，接任陈海未竟的事业。在汉东省政坛，以汉东省省委副书记、政法委书记 高育良为代表的“政法系”，以汉东省省委常委、京州市委书记李达康为代表的“秘书帮”相争多年，不分轩轾。新任省委书记沙瑞金的到来，注定将打破这种政治的平衡局面，为汉东省的改革大业带来新的气息。

When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is Superintendent Martin Beck's son. Beck breaks down and moves out of the way. But on his colleagues request he returns.

An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and everything indicates that she was a prostitute. Meanwhile a series of break-ins has occurred on an island outside of Stockholm. Suddenly a retired old man is also found dead in his own yard. Now Beck has two cases to solve and they both point in the same direction.

In this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all over Sweden. An obvious connection is that all the victims are women, and they were all in the same class, and Beck thinks that a scandal back in the past has something to do with the murders. But no one wants to talk about the past and it becomes a struggle to find the perpetrator before the final murder - only one woman is still alive.

Swedish politician John Veden vanishes without a trace. There's no hint he's dead yet but Beck's team gets the case due to Police Chief Oberg's friendship with the man whom she dined with him the evening before he vanished. When they find out Veden was a gambler with heavy debts battling his addiction the case leads Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and freshly returned Lena Klingström into Sweden's illegal gambling scene. And Veden was planning to expose his own addiction and his party's huge financial profits from gambling in a confessional book - which his political allies got wind of via illegal data theft. With several people having an interest that Veden stays missing the team tries to find the politician and the true perpetrator while Beck is grappling privately with his ambivalent feelings about working with ex Lena again....

A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefcase to pieces and it looks like false alarm, until a baby is found inside. Soon, e-mails are sent out to every newspaper about the nasty situation that the police had tried to keep secret. Will the police ever overcome the "Monster"?

一名八岁的辅祭男童遭神父性侵，他的父母惊讶地发现教会希望用钱请他们封口。