[close]
The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe
4★
Winter’s chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the scene of a shocking murder. An unidentified woman lies beheaded in a posh suburban home—a brutal crime made all the more disturbing by its uncanny resemblance to an unsolved killing ten years earlier. But this time there’s a suspect: the charismatic and controversial chain-store CEO Jesper Orre, who owns the home but is nowhere to be found. But they’re not the only ones searching. Two months before, Emma Bohman, a young clerk at Orre’s company, chanced to meet the charming chief executive, and romance swiftly bloomed. Almost as quickly as the passionate affair ignited, it was over when Orre inexplicably disappeared. One staggering misfortune after another followed, leaving Emma certain that her runaway lover was to blame and transforming her confusion and heartbreak into anger. Now, pursuing the same mysterious man for different reasons, Emma and the police are destined to cross paths in a chilling dance of obsession, vengeance, madness, and love gone hellishly wrong.I realized about a third of the way into the book that I had read it when it first came out...of course I had forgotten some of it...so I continued to read and I'm glad I did. It's a compelling storyline even though I sometimes found it frustrating that it constantly jumped back and forth in time with each character's perspective of the murder. Some would describe it as "chick lit" pretending to be a police procedural but it had enough twists and turns to make it interesting.
