The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg

Writer Erica Falck has moved from Stockholm back to her family home in Fjallbacka after her parents' deaths. Soon after returning, she's involved in the discovering the murdered body of her childhood best friend, Alex Calgren. Erica is very affected by Alex's death since Alex disappeared from her life when they were ten and Erica never knew the reason for the Calgren family's move. Erica thinks that Alex's story would make a great book and does some investigating of her own, despite her misgivings of exploiting the situation. In Erica's personal life, she struggles with the hold her brother-in-law, Lucas, has over her sister, Anna. Lucas is demanding that Erica and Anna sell the home in Fjallbacka, since its half Anna's. Erica also finally lets her feelings come to the surface for policeman Patrik Hedstrom, someone she has known since she was a child. The Ice Princess is very similar to the mysteries of Asa Larsson. The setting and descriptive characterizations remind me of the books of Karin Fossum and Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin. Not yet published in the U.S., try borrowing through your library's interlibrary loan service.