I really liked this book as Viveca has changed, who the book is mostly about, and this time it is Thomas. We were left with him falling through the ice in the last book, and in this one he has made his ex-wife pregnant with a little girl. It doesn't leave Nora for long but mostly we feel for her new love with her tenant. The story unfolds with 8 men in their basic training which lasts for eleven months. Unknown to us it was the reason for the first suicide to take place that lead to the murders

Viveca Sten scores again with a tightly plotted, intriguing murder mystery set around Sandhamn, an island off Stockholm in Sweden. The murders start with a student whose problem is that he is investigating the legendary Swedish Coastal Rangers, the equivalent of the US’s Seal Team VI. Their training is brutal but beyond brutal under the leadership of their sergeant who is left unidentified until near the end of the novel. Thomas Andreasson, minus a toe he lost to frostbite on a recent case, is o...

Not as good as earlier books in the series. Plots are becoming a bit formulaic and with increased mayhem used to draw the reader in instead of a complex and riveting plot. Still...cheaper than a trip to Sweden.

A very good read… But…Yet again the dam book doesn’t END! It just STOPS! With multiple plot threads dangling there around us like the bare, sad branches of a weeping willow in winter. Whatever happened to the literary precedent of THE FINAL CHAPTER? And, those delicious words; “Two months later…”? A recently-forward time when everything has settled down, when conclusions can finally be made, when our legitimate questions can be provided with satisfying answers? When everyone, their wounds dresse...

4 starsI read the Kindle English edition.Detective Thomas Andreasson returns to work after doing a month in rehab following his falling through the ice. He lost two toes and is getting used to walking again. He responds to a body in the student housing section of Stockholm University. They find Marcus Nielsen hanging from a fixture. It’s an apparent suicide. Marcus’ family insists that he did not commit suicide. He was as normal as can be on the Saturday before his demise. Thomas goes to look at...

I liked Nora better in this one. In fact, her story was more interesting than the actual mystery.

This boo k, and book 3 in series were darker-- hitting that Swedish Nordic Noir edge, using same characters with a little less of their personal lives and a larger historical back story of murder, abuse, small town secrets, military, the whole grim shebang-- in between beautiful vistas of the Archipelago. Glad to havea break as Book 5 not yet published.

Too much soppy romance that I skipped over. Not enough good mystery.

This is the first novel by Viveca Sten that I have read, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.Told from two different points in time, the story has a good pace, interesting characters, and an intriguing plot, though I did guess the final twist before it was explained in the book.I look forward to reading other books in this series.I was given a copy of this novel by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

2 ⭐️ No blatant spoilers. Just basic observations. This was my least favorite book in the series. It’s not that it was poorly written (though, I think some of the translations were awkward this time around), it’s just that it was disjointed and slow. The intrigue of the murder doesn’t start until you’re 200 pages in, which to me is too long for a build up... especially because the build up was for such a predictable ending (I honestly didn’t need to read the last 50 pages).This was also the firs...

All change!This fourth instalment in the Sandhamn Mysteries makes a shift away from Sandhamn itself, with much of the present day police activity being on the mainland, while the action in the 1970s timeline is set on Korso, another island in the Stockholm Archipelago, used in the past for the training elite military forces. This change of location is not the only thing that marks this book out from its predecessors: Nora features rather less than in the previous novels and the time devoted to t...

Good murder mystery.While reading this book, forgot the fact author was female. She did created strong and caring male character. This kind of a military training doesn't grab this grandmother. Male readers, about thirty will enjoy this story.

Thomas, now reunited with his former wife following the incident concluding the previous installment, returns to work and investigates murders in the present-day which seem to be linked to Coastal Ranger training on the island of Korsö during the 1970s. A student's death while researching sociological aspects of military service prompts Thomas and Margit to investigate what went on there as a pattern involving them emerges. Laundry detergent plays a part in many of the murders. The author offers...

I’ve been enjoying this Sandamn Murders series from Viveca Sten. Tonight You’re Dead is the fourth book in the series. In this one, the focus is less on Nora Linde, as it was in the previous books, and more on police detective Thomas Andreasson and his partner, Margit Grankvist. Nora has only a peripheral connection to the case that Thomas and Margit are working on, instead of being a major player, and most of Nora’s scenes in the book relate to her family and a potential new love interest. I li...

Wow. Sweden has a seriously dark side. Also? I wish my friend Hank was still alive so he could make fun of me for reading three books in one day.

A bit disappointing--definitely my least favorite in the series. Very little about Sandheim, very little about Nora. It certainly seems well-researched and if you're more of a fan of military history than I am, you'll likely enjoy it. Meanwhile, I'll be hoping that when the next book becomes available in English, I'll be reading one that's more like the first three in the series.

Thank you Netgalley and Amazon Crossing for the eARC.The 4th in this great series was another thoroughly enjoyable read. Can't wait for the 5th.Nora is on her own, sharing custody of her beloved boys with her ex-husband; one week with her, one week with him. It's a tough time for her, she still feels mentally bruised. Thank goodness for her best friend Thomas, who is reunited with his wife. The couple gives Nora much needed solace and, on top ofthat, she even meets a possible new man.Thomas is i...

I eagerly await each new translation of Viveca Sten's Sandhamn Murders series and was gratified to find the latest translation (Tonight You're Dead) on NetGalley. Marcus Nielsen, a university student, is initially suspected of suicide; Thomas Andreasson, however, can't exactly understand what bothers him about the scene. After finding out what Marcus has been researching, Thomas visits one of the men Marcus interviewed. The man, a former member of the Coastal Rangers, is found dead shortly after...

Big thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.‘Tonight You’re Dead’ originally was published in Swedish in 2011, in English – 14 November 2017.It’s the second book of Viveca Sten I have read so far. And probably won’t be the last. I must say I am a sucker for Scandinavian detective and mystery stories.I very much enjoyed the focus on the Detective Thomas Andreasson in this book as I find his character very appealing. At the same time Nora’s role in this story got a little bit

I started this series with book 5 and until now, I considered that the best of the series. I actually enjoyed this one more.Sten adopts the same mechanic as the previous book – flashbacks to the past to fill in some detail – it didn’t work that well in book 3, the sections were too drawn out and distracted from the murder mystery in the present that you actually cared about. Here she nails it – shorter sections, just snippets giving you glimpses, without being a distraction. Instead of being vag...