Trivia

This is actually the first film in the series, followed by Brandbilen som försvann (1993). They were released out of order as this was released straight to video while that premiered in theaters. Also, IMDb's follows/followed by order of this and the third film Murder at the Savoy (1993) is reversed, but somehow can't be corrected as they were released on the same day.

Gösta Ekman and Anita Ekström also played husband and wife in A Summer of Love (1979).

Director Daniel Alfredson is the son of actor/writer/director Hans Alfredson.

Torgny Anderberg who plays Hammar played his successor Malm in Man on the Roof (1976).

Lennart Kollberg stops for burgers at the "Big Burger" restaurant, right next to Odenplan, which is the same place where there were lots of commotion including a police helicopter shot down, in the previous Swedish Beck movie adaption, Man on the Roof (1976).

Maj Sjöwall: Police secretary in Motala.