Reading order · 11 books · 2003 to 2022 · Set in Fjällbacka
Fjällbacka Books in Order
Erica Falck, a crime writer, and her husband, Detective Patrik Hedström, solve murders in the picturesque fishing village of Fjällbacka on Sweden’s west coast, where crimes in the present are rooted deep in the past.
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Series facts
- Books
- 11
- Published
- 2003 to 2022
- First book
- The Ice Princess
- Latest
- The Cuckoo (2022)
- Setting
- Set in Fjällbacka
The reading order
Every Fjällbacka book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
11 books · Set in Fjällbacka
- 1The Ice Princess2003With Erica FalckErica Falck, a writer, returns to Fjällbacka after her parents’ death, and her childhood friend Alex is found dead in a frozen bath.Buy on Amazon
- 2The Preacher2004With Erica Falck and Patrik HedströmA boy finds the body of a young woman in a rocky gorge near Fjällbacka, and beneath her lie the skeletons of two girls who disappeared twenty years before.Buy on Amazon
- 3The Stonecutter2005With Erica Falck and Patrik HedströmA fisherman pulls the body of a little girl from the sea, and it soon becomes clear that her death was no accident.Buy on Amazon
- 4The Stranger2006With Erica Falck and Patrik HedströmA woman is killed in a car crash after drinking, though she never drank, while a reality television show is being filmed in the town.Buy on Amazon
- 5The Hidden Child2007With Erica Falck and Patrik HedströmErica finds her late mother’s diaries and a Nazi medal in the attic, and begins to uncover her family’s wartime secrets.Buy on Amazon
- 6The Drowning2008With Erica Falck and Patrik HedströmChristian Thydell, a librarian about to publish his first novel, has been receiving threatening letters, and then a friend of his is found drowned in the ice.Buy on Amazon
- 7The Lost Boy2009With Erica Falck and Patrik HedströmA financial director is murdered in Fjällbacka, and his old love has returned to live on a lonely island with her young son.Buy on Amazon
- 8Buried Angels2011With Erica Falck and Patrik HedströmIn 1974, a family vanished from a boarding school on an island near Fjällbacka, leaving only a baby girl behind.Buy on Amazon
- 9The Ice Child2014With Erica Falck and Patrik HedströmA teenage girl who went missing months ago walks out of the woods in winter, injured, and is hit by a car.Buy on Amazon
- 10The Girl in the Woods2017With Erica Falck and Patrik HedströmA four-year-old girl disappears from her family’s farm and is found dead in the same place where another girl was killed thirty years before, and Erica is writing a book about the old case.Buy on Amazon
- 11The Cuckoo2022With Erica Falck and Patrik HedströmA famous photographer is found murdered in his Fjällbacka gallery and tragedy strikes the Bauer family on their private island, while Erica’s research into an old unsolved Stockholm murder proves connected to Patrik’s case.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read in order, starting with The Ice Princess. Erica and Patrik’s family life develops through the series.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Erica Falck | Patrik Hedström | Anna | Martin Molin | Bertil Mellberg | Gösta Flygare | Annika |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 The Ice Princess | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 2 The Preacher | LLead | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 3 The Stonecutter | LLead | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 4 The Stranger | LLead | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 5 The Hidden Child | LLead | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 6 The Drowning | LLead | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 7 The Lost Boy | LLead | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 8 Buried Angels | LLead | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 9 The Ice Child | LLead | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 10 The Girl in the Woods | LLead | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
| 11 The Cuckoo | LLead | LLead | MMajor | MMajor | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor |
Characters in the Fjällbacka books
7 characters from Camilla Läckberg’s chart, with the number of Fjällbacka books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Erica FalckCrime writer from Fjällbacka | 11 | The Ice Princess 2003 |
| Patrik HedströmDetective, Erica’s husband | 11 | The Ice Princess 2003 |
| AnnaErica’s younger sister | 11 | The Ice Princess 2003 |
| Martin MolinYoung detective | 11 | The Ice Princess 2003 |
| Bertil MellbergLazy, self-important police chief | 11 | The Ice Princess 2003 |
| Gösta FlygareVeteran detective | 11 | The Ice Princess 2003 |
| AnnikaStation secretary | 11 | The Ice Princess 2003 |