Camilla Läckberg, trans. from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-60598-330-1
Läckberg’s excellent third novel set in the west coast village of Fjällbacka, like its predecessors The Ice Princess and The Preacher, strips conventional veneers from her achingly complex characters. Alternating parallel narratives embroil readers...
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Camilla Läckberg, trans. from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-60598-425-4
In Swedish author Läckberg’s engaging, if subpar, fourth crime thriller set in Fjällbacka (after 2012’s The Stonecutter), Det. Patrik Hedström investigates a local woman’s death in what appears to be a D.W.I. accident. Some things don’t add up, like
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Camilla Läckberg, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (544p) ISBN 978-1-60598-553-4
Läckberg’s excellent fifth novel set in the Swedish coastal village of Fjällbacka (after 2013’s The Stranger) finds Det. Patrik Hedström on paternity leave, looking after his toddler daughter, Maja, though that doesn’t stop him from taking her to a...
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Camilla Läckberg, trans. from the Swedish by Tiina Nunnally. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-60598-856-6
Läckberg’s uneven sixth novel set in the Swedish town of Fjällbacka (after 2014’s The Hidden Child) opens promisingly enough with the baffling disappearance of family man Magnus Kjellner, in circumstances suggesting payback for some horrific long-pas
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Camilla Läckberg, trans. from the Swedish by Tiina Nunnally. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-68177-204-2
Läckberg, Sweden’s bestselling “queen of crime,” explores near-unspeakable grief in her stunning seventh novel set in the town of Fjällbacka (after 2015’s The Drowning). Several mothers suffer in body and soul after losing their sons, in contrast to
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Camilla L%C3%A4ckberg, read by David Thorn. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hours, $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61573-546-4
Läckberg arrives in the U.S. with a first-class mystery (the first in a series), making her the latest Swedish import of Scandinavian intrigue and murder. Erica Falck is an author of biographies who has come to the small coastal town of Fjallbacka...
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Camilla Läckberg, read by Simon Vance. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11.5 hrs., $36.95 ISBN 978-1-61174-626-6
Inspector Patrik Hedstrom of the Fjällbacka Police Department returns in this latest tale of Swedish small town murder. A tragic car accident leaves a local woman dead and alcohol abuse seems to be the reason for the crash. But, from all accounts,...
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Camilla Läckberg, read by Simon Vance. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-62231-321-1
This latest visit to Läckberg’s Fjällbacka, a tourist resort on Sweden’s southwest coast, finds homicide detective Patrik Hedström on paternity leave, caring for baby daughter Maja, which frees his wife, author Erica Falck, to finish a book about...
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Camilla Lackberg, Author, Steven T. Murray, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Pegasus $25.95 (393p) ISBN 978-1-60598-092-8
At the start of Läckberg's haunting U.S. debut, the first of her seven novels set in the Swedish coastal town of Fjällbacka, biographer Erica Falck returns home to sort through her deceased parents' belongings and work on her...
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Camilla L%C3%A4ckberg, trans. from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-60598-173-4
Swedish bestseller Läckberg's worthy second thriller set in the coastal town of Fjällbacka (after The Ice Princess) opens with a grim discovery—the naked fresh corpse of Tanja Schmidt, a German tourist, on top of the skeletal remains of two young...
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Camilla L%C3%A4ckberg, read by David Thorn. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 13 CDs, 16 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61573-548-8
This sequel to Läckberg's internationally bestselling The Ice Princess finds Scandinavian police detective Patrik Hedstrom returning to the earlier novel's small fishing village of Fjällbacka, Sweden, where the naked corpse of a recently slain young
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Camilla Läckberg, read by David Thorn. HighBridge Audio, 17 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61573-550-1
The extreme darkness of the human spirit—a quality that marks Läckberg’s novel and the work of many other Swedish crime writers—is expertly portrayed in this audio edition by narrator David Thorn, who previously read earlier installments in the...
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