19th Wife by David Ebershoff (2008)
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. Yet soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death.
Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg (2008)
After she returns to her hometown to learn that her
friend was found in an ice-cold bath with her wrists slashed, biographer Erica Falck researches her friend's past in hopes of writing a book. She joins forces with Detective Patrik Hedstrom, who has his own suspicions about the case. This is Camilla Lackberg's first book in a series of Swedish mysteries. Her books are a combination of Bridget Jones meets Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but without the gratuitous violence.
