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Sail Of Stone (2002)

by Åke Edwardson(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1451608500 (ISBN13: 9781451608502)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster

series

Inspector Winter

review 1: There were two parallel stories and that kept the book both interesting and confusing. The reason I gave this 3 stars and not 4 was the way it ended. I wanted to know the full story about John Osvald and what the grandson was doing in Scotland. I wanted to know more about Inspector MacDonald's injuries. On the second case involving Halders and Aneta there are so many unanswered questions I found myself looking to see if pages were missing from my book.
review 2: Not the greatest of the Northern mystery writers (he's not Indridason or Mankell) but this is a very slow philosophical mystery and Edwardson wasn't really able to really resolve both strands of the novel and left me feeling less than satisfied - neither of the resolutions really worked and while I like... more mysteries that don't necessarily wrap up neatly, this seemed like it had just been beyond Edwardson's control and he wanted to just get to the end and it showed. I think my problem is also that I think of Winters as a modern Swedish version of Peter Wimsey (this is how Edwardson portrays him - debonair, likes exspensive scotch and Saville Row clothes and fine dining) and I haven't a lot of sympathy for him as a character! less

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