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"Chief Inspector Erik Winter of the Gothenburg police force faces a puzzling missing person case: A brother and sister report that their father has disappeared, and they believe he may have gone to Scotland in search of his father, who was presumed to have died in World War II. With the help of an old friend from Scotland Yard, Winter sets off to the land of malt whiskeys in search of the truth. Meanwhile Winter's colleague Aneta Djanali, Gothenburg's African-Swedish female detective, takes a report about a suspected abused wife. But she cannot find the woman, who seems to have disappeared except for mysterious phone messages she sometimes leaves, and her family won't say where the missing woman is. The case becomes personal for Aneta as she receives chilling threats from someone who clearly doesn't want her to find the missing woman.This mystery featuring Chief Inspector Winter is an outstanding psychological thriller, a character study of great depth and skill by a Swedish master"--"In SAIL OF STONE Chief Inspector Erik Winter and one of his female detectives find themselves separately pursuing two unusual missing-person cases. SAIL OF STONE is an outstanding psychological thriller, a character study of great depth and skill, by internationally best-selling author �ke Edwardson"--… (more)
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The old girl friend and her brother report their father missing after he has gone off to Scotland, possibly in search of his own father, who disappeared off the coast of Scotland at the beginning of World War II. When they don’t hear from him for several days, they assume the worst, but how do they begin?
At the same time, detective Aneta Djanali is searching for a woman who may be the victim of abuse, if she could only be located. Her investigations lead to the discovery of a ring of thieves who are systematically cleaning out apartments in Gothenburg, and the missing woman’s father may, or may not, be involved.
The story is realistic in the way the characters’ thoughts wander to personal issues even as they strategize about how to approach the cases they are working on. Inevitably their personal issues and relationships become intertwined with the cases.
Sail of Stone is a journey into the minds and emotions of the characters as well as the physical journey from Sweden to Scotland, and this physical journey becomes the crux of the solution to Winter’s feelings about his life, and well as providing the solution to a 70 year old mystery.
[Sail of Stone] pursues two stories of a search for a nebulous person. In one case Aneta, with the help of Halder, try to find a woman who has been reported by neighbors as being battered. But there are so many family dramas around her that it is difficult to pin down who and where she is. At the same time, a father has gone missing, looking for his own father who was supposed to have been lost at sea many years before. Winter and an old friend investigate his disappearance unofficially while on holiday with their spouses (they may not be officially married). As in all Edwardson mysteries I have read there is a rich interplay between the course of the investigation and what is happening in the emotional life of the detectives.
I recommend this novel, as well as the series in general.