1222 by Anne Holt

A well-crafted mystery with a unique setting.  Following the Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, Norwegian dark mysteries have been a hot commodity.  This Norwegian writer features a paraplegic female detective, Hanne Wilhelmson, now living on disability after her accident. She is traveling by train in winter when the train crashes outside a small town in the mountains.  While the blizzard grows in strength, making rescue impossible, she and the other passengers are given shelter as guests of the local town hotel.  In addition to the mystery surrounding a curious extra car that was added to the train and closely guarded, two murders occur within 24 hours of each other.  Hanne reluctantly joins in the search for killer, all the while trying to keep the confined passengers from panicking. Hanne has become somewhat anti-social after her accident, and I found the character's introspective musings tedious after a bit, but overall this was a fun read.  313 pages