Guiltless is my third trip to Sandhamn, a small island off the Swedish coast with a population of only a couple of hundred people but – seemingly – a lot of murder.  I have to say, it sounds beautiful there, but – given the death count – I would think twice before visiting.This time, the victim is a young girl, missing for months before Nora’s boys find her body. She is an island native (vs. the visitors that flood the island in the summer) and so her death is possibly more shocking than it migh...

This is the third book in the Sandhamn Scandinavian series. This time the setting is in winter with its early darkening days anda more darker plot. We have one story set in the early 1900 and also the present. The author sure knows this part of Sweden and it shows through in her description of life on these small islands of the archipelago. The victim is a young girl, missing for months before Nora’s boys find her body. She is an island native and so her death is possibly more shocking than it m...

4.5/5I obtained a free copy of this book through Voracious Readers Only in exchange for my honest review. Guiltless is the third novel in the Sandham Murders series. Nora recently finds out her husband, and father of her children, has cheated on her with a nurse at his hospital. The only saving grace in this troubling time is that her kids are scheduled for mid-semester break. Nora takes her two boys to the island of Sandham so she can collect her thoughts, think of her next move, and avoid her

Love this series I can not wait until the next book is translated into English. This series has been an unexpected find. The author is a great storyteller,and her the combination of likeable interesting characters and captivating stories makes it a wonderful read

A 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...

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 snowThe older story is about a family with 2 children - The father is very controlling and abusive. Since I have read the other two books, I was familiar with the main characters and their past stories - I felt as if I

I was enjoying this book until the ending. Whoever came up with the trend of books in a series ending in cliffhangers should be smacked. I don't care that the next book is out and all. It isn't fair to the reader for books not to have a definite ending. Especially when there's danger to a main character involved, plot armor or no plot armor. So infuriating.

4 starsNora Linde accidentally finds out that her husband has a girlfriend. She demands that he leave the house and goes with her two sons to the vacation home on Sandhamn. Her boys, out playing with their friends in the snow come across a severed arm. It turns out to belong to a young woman named Lina Rosen who disappeared some four months earlier. During the course of the investigation, Nora meets up again with Thomas Andreasson, a police detective and childhood friend of Nora’s.This book goes...

This is the 3rd book in this crime series set on an archipelago off Stockholm called Sandhamn. A young girl has been missing on Sandhamn for four months and despite a large search nothing has come to light. Fears are that she has fallen into the sea and her body may never be discovered.As per other books in this series, the lead characters are Nora (a lawyer with a holiday house on Sandhamn) and Thomas (a police officer and close friend of Nora). They are both a a pivotal point in their respecti...

I think there may be a good book hidden in here somewhere but you have to go through so much detail it is hard to find. The author seems to be more interested in writing about people and their problems then creating an interesting mystery.

Well! This was certainly a much more disturbing book than the previous two in the series. And the murder mystery proper was nowhere near as predictable as in previous.....but I'm slightly aggravated because our author held out a key relationship fact until way late in the book (that was not a spoiler, I promise). Very thankful to have a bit more open time on the calendar to keep bingeing on this series. Totally sucked in to the main characters' personal lives.

Ummm. Not my favorite in the series so far. The beginning started off with so much promise. I was immediately pulled in by the drama surrounding the main characters. There were high stakes for both Nora and Thomas in each of their personal lives. Love lost and love found. But then the disappearance/murder mixed with the century old family quarrel was a stretch for me. The main plot didn’t come together. There was so much build up for something as cliche as “favoritism” and “revenge”. And if you’...

The focus is less on the mystery and more on the personal lives. Nora's situtation is interesting; Thomas' less so. An good enough reader, lite and easy.

I picked up Guiltless for the Sweden stop on my Around the World in 80 Books challenge. I had not read the first or second novels in the series, but that did not seem to matter at all. I found that it worked very well indeed as a standalone novel. Guiltless takes part on a small island in the Swedish archipelago named Sandhamn, and is engaging from its very first page. Throughout, the novel is really well plotted and structured, and its translation is fluid. The sense of place and characters are...

I'm sure it was as good in Swedish as it was in the English translation, which isn't listed on Goodreads.

Interesting Murder mystery set on the small island of Sandhamn, Sweden. Interspersed with the historical background of several generations and their connection to the murder.

I enjoy reading about Sandhamn by Viveca Sten each story is totally different from the others except for the characters. The Island life is very fascinating and interesting and yet you have this weird feeling about whats going to happen. Nora Linde is a fantastic person who has diabetes, a cheating husband, and two small boys that she is fanatical about and a curiosity that happens to be right on the money. Her best friend, Thomas is a policeman who been through a lot of finding fault with blami...

As I read this series I get more invested in the characters, which is not unusual, I guess.This book had an interesting feature, two story lines, one taking place on Sandhamm in the early twentieth century and the main story taking place in current times. Besides providing an intriguing mystery, these two threads contrasted life on Sandhamm during two different time periods.I look forward to the learning more about the island as I advance in the series.

This is book #3 in the Sandhamn series by Viveca Sten. I have read it in a Dutch translation, but it will doubtless also exist in your language. Viveca Sten is definitely an upcoming talent in Scandinavian crime novels. In her third book, the best so far in the series, she gets even better than in the former two books.A girl of around 18 years disappears, and later evidence shows that she has been murdered. So far for the plot, because I do not want to introduce spoilers in this review.Between t...