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.
Another good book in the Sandhom series. The author manages to weave a good mystery in with a continuation of personal stories about the main characters. And the ending leaves the reader hoping for a quick sequel.
murder on Sandhamn The story goes back and forth between a current story and one from the early 1900’s. – I wondered how the 2 stories connected. The current story is the death of a young girl. She had been missing for several months – when suddenly her arm was discovered by children playing in the snowÂ
Potential Guiltless starts out with a bang and dives right into something horrible. The story goes back and forth between a current story and one from the 1900’s-1920’s. There were 2 things that kept me reading: 1. I was curious about the connection between the 2 stories. 2. I wanted to know the answer to the classic question, “who did it and why?”.Â