The Recurring Cast
Reading order · 3 books · 2016 to 2019 · Set in Racine, Wisconsin

Family Secrets Books in Order

The Family Secrets books follow Ilka Jensen, a Danish photographer who learns that her estranged father has left her his funeral home in Racine, Wisconsin, and travels there to settle his affairs.

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Series facts

Books
3
Published
2016 to 2019
First book
The Undertaker's Daughter
Latest
The Third Sister (2019)
Setting
Set in Racine, Wisconsin

The reading order

Every Family Secrets book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.

3 books · Set in Racine, Wisconsin
  1. 1The Undertaker's Daughter2016With Ilka JensenIlka Jensen, a photographer in Copenhagen, learns that her father, who walked out when she was a child, has died and left her his funeral home in Racine, Wisconsin.Buy on Amazon
  2. 2Her Father's Secret2017With Ilka JensenIlka Jensen, now running the Wisconsin funeral home she inherited from the father who left her as a child, keeps digging into the secrets he left behind.Buy on Amazon
  3. 3The Third Sister2019With Ilka JensenIlka faces a business partner in hospital and her father’s widow in jail, and a shocking discovery about her father draws her into a world of secrets and danger.Buy on Amazon

Do you need to read them in order?

Read The Undertaker’s Daughter, Her Father’s Secret and The Third Sister in order.

Who appears in which book

The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.

Who appears in each Family Secrets book
BookIlka JensenEik Nordstrøm
1 The Undertaker's DaughterLLeadMMajor
2 Her Father's SecretLLeadMMajor
3 The Third SisterLLeadMMajor

Characters in the Family Secrets books

2 characters from Sara Blaedel’s chart, with the number of Family Secrets books each appears in.

CharacterBooksFirst in this series
Ilka JensenDanish photographer running her late father's funeral home3The Undertaker's Daughter 2016
Eik NordstrømLouise's partner in the missing persons unit3The Undertaker's Daughter 2016