Not the new Stieg Larsson

I did manage to read to the end of Camilla Lackberg's The Ice Princess because I always read to the end of a book I've started ... actually that's not true, I never got further than 10 pages into James Joyce's Ulysses. The cover of Lackberg's book pronounced "7 million books sold" and promised that the novel was "a masterclass in Scandinavian crime writing". Certianly the icy setting is beautifully, and comprehensively, described and I was forced to crank up the heating while reading as I felt the chill. But ... I didn't really get involved with the central characters, Erica and Patrik, enough to care if they managed to solve the crime whilst embarking upon a relationship. It's as if the chilliness creeps into the writing; the style is cold and detatched. I didn't enjoy it.