The Blood Spilt by Asa Larsson

Lawyer Rebecka Martinsson is still recovering from the trauma of shooting three men two years ago near Kiruna (detailed in Larsson's first mystery, Sun Storm). Her work duties have been reduced to sitting in on meetings and housesitting for one of the partners. She then joins a coworker in Kiruna to help sell the firm's services to a local church council. There she learns that a female priest was murdered a few months ago and she is enlisted by the parish priest to help move the victim's husband out of his home and to recover the keys to the dead priest's church locker. As she meets the local townpeople she finds herself involved more than she even realizes. Larsson creates a great sense of place in far north Sweden. The Blood Spilt reminds me of Arnaldur Indridason's Silence of the Grave more than the other Scandanvian authors I enjoy (Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser, Helene Tursten, Ake Edwardson, Kjell Eriksson).