The Ice Princess : A Novel (Paperback)

from jmyers24

Camilla Lackberg's The Ice Princess is a mystery full of mysteries. There's Alex Wijkner, the murder victim, found partially frozen in the bathtub of her childhood-turned-summer home by the caretaker and Erica, Alex's estranged friend from childhood. Why was she there and not at her home in Göteb...

from rainpebble

A fairly violent Nordic mystery. A writer gets caught up in the murder of a childhood friend and along the way comes across unsolved cold cases that relate to the current crime. She is also dealing with her sister and a brother-in-law who is violent and abusive. She becomes involved with the loca...

from nbmars

The author is a best seller in Sweden, and her translator is the same one who did the Stieg Larsson books, so I thought this book ought to be good, and it was. Erica Falck is a 35-year-old writer living in Fjällbacka who finds her childhood friend, Alexandra ("Alex") Wijkner, dead in a bathtub fu...

from delphimo

The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg illustrates the beauty and bleakness of Sweden. The names of the various characters caused moments of confusion, as the names do not follow the easy American pattern. Lackberg inserts many “red herrings” as to whom murdered Alex. The relationships of the indiv...

from CentralCaliGrrrl

I really, really wanted to like this book. Suspense thrillers are my favorite and I was very excited to read a crime mystery by a woman as highly regarded as Camilla Läckberg. Maybe I expected too much, but The Ice Princess just wasn't as astounding as I had hoped it would be. It did have a decen...