Guiltless
Written by Viveca Sten
Narrated by Angela Dawe
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
The tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for lawyer Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds its comforts more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter. That is, until her two young sons trip across a severed arm in the woods.
The boys' gruesome discovery will once again connect Nora with her childhood friend Thomas Andreasson, now a local police detective. When the limb is identified as belonging to a twenty-year-old woman who disappeared without a trace months earlier, what had been a missing persons case takes on a whole new urgency.
Nora and Thomas delve deeply into the woman's final hours, each of them wrestling not only with the case but with the private demons it awakens in them. As they do, they'll find themselves drawn into the history of Sandhamn and the tensions that have been simmering just below the surface for more than a hundred years.
Viveca Sten
Swedish writer Viveca Sten has sold almost four million copies of her enormously popular Sandhamn Murders series. In 2014, her seventh novel, the hugely successful I maktens skugga (In the Shadow of Power), was published in Sweden and cemented her place as one of the country's most popular authors. Her Sandhamn Murders novels continue to top the bestseller charts and have been made into a successful Swedish-language TV miniseries, which has been broadcast around the world to thirty million viewers. Sten lives in Stockholm with her husband and three children, but she prefers to spend her time visiting Sandhamn to write and vacation with her family.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As brilliant as the first two. And WOW does it leave you with a cliffhanger. Headed to the next one now. ;)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the 3rd of the Sandheim Murder series, written by Swedish author Viveca Sten and set on the Islands off Sweden’s coast.Nora is taking a break from her marriage woes by spending time at her island home with her two sons. But their peace is shattered when Nora’s two young boys find a severed arm wrapped in plastic in the nearby woods where they are playing. Presumably, it belongs to a high school girl who went missing several months ago. Obviously, it’s murder.Nora’s friend detective Mark and his boss Margit are called from the mainland to investigate the case. Of course, Nora gets involved, too, especially as she sees a dark figure lurking around her house and the victim’s family home.There is a second timeline of diary entries of an abused boy from a hundred years ago. The two timelines come together in an interesting way. As this installment also delves more deeply into a death from a previous book, this one would be a hard place to start the series.And arrrrrrghhh! It ends with a cliffhanger. I sincerely hope Sten doesn’t continue with the cliffhanger endings – I hate them so, especially if I have to wait a year or more to find how they resolve. At least the next book in this series is readily available.I’m becoming quite invested in the characters, and their relationship progressions as the series continues.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A young woman disappeared on Sandhamn. Months later Nora's sons discover a black bag while playing. Thomas and Margit come to the island to investigate. Nora left her husband after discovering his affair with a nurse. She ran to Sandhamn since the boys were on a school break.Thomas' ex-wife returns to Stockholm and visits Thomas. The book also contains a century old story relevant to the current investigation although not immediately apparent. I didn't like the way the story ended, but since the series continues I assume the outcome will end up being favorable. I really enjoy this series and look forward to the next installment.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In this third installment in the Sandhamn Murders series, Viveca Sten has hit her stride. Sandhamn is a small island in the Stockholm Archipelago, a popular summer destination with few year-round residents -- an unlikely setting for so much violent crime, but then that’s the way these series usually work. The investigation is focused on remains found in the forest several months after a young woman’s disappearance. Detective Thomas Andreasson is on the case, and the circumstances behind the crime require assistance from other experts in Stockholm. Thomas’ friend Nora Linde is on the island with her sons, and the case serves to occupy her thoughts with something other than the relationship crisis that hits her at the beginning of the novel.There’s also a parallel storyline of a boy and his abusive father, set nearly a century earlier. This is interesting in its own right, with plenty of dramatic tension. The connection with the present-day murder investigation is a believable twist integral to solving the crime. And just as things are wrapping up, Sten drops a huge cliffhanger that guarantees I’ll move swiftly on to the next book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is the third entry in Swedish author Viveca Sten's Sandhamn series - police procedural set in the Stockholm Archipelago. The first two books were set in summer, but this one shows us what winter is like there - cold and harsh, and much less populated. I liked the part that old diary entries played into revealing some darker island history. Still not great writing - it feels a bit clunky, but I am wondering if that is due to translation. The characters are coming into their own, which I was happy to see. These are interesting and cozy mysteries, and even when you figure it out ahead of time, they compensate you with a well done sense of place. Recommended if you are looking for lighter fare in your mystery.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a darker book than the two earlier entries in the series, but is still a good read, and leaves me looking forward to the arrival of the fourth book in the series in English. Some of the characters will be familiar to readers of the earlier books, as will the setting -- the Swedish island of Sandhamn. In this book, however, it is winter not summer, the island's population is down from thousands of summer people to a few hundred locals, and the island's past is reaching into the present. There are two story lines, one set in the present and the other from the early 1900's forward; the meshing of the two is well done, and if the identity of the murderer isn't a big surprise, the "why" is interesting. I strongly recommend reading this series in order, because the stories of the central characters develop from novel to novel.