Katarina Bivald Books in Order

Sara travels from Sweden to Iowa to meet her book-loving pen pal, only to arrive after the woman’s funeral. Welcomed by the struggling town, she opens an unlikely bookstore that begins changing both her future and the community’s.

After her daughter leaves home, Anette discovers how far her life has drifted from her youthful ambitions. Motorcycle lessons, an unlikely project, her mother’s dementia, and unexpected love push her to reconsider what independence and adventure might mean.

Henny refuses to let her sudden death end her involvement in the lives surrounding a struggling roadside motel. Remaining near the friends she loves, she hopes to help them rediscover happiness before they lose the place that holds them together.

Blocked novelist Berit arrives in an eccentric English village looking for a story, then witnesses the aftermath of a fatal explosion. While she investigates, residents turn their sudden notoriety into a book-and-murder festival with unpredictable consequences.

Berit attends a writers’ conference in France expecting a pleasant break, only for a prominent author to die after her lecture. Investigating literary grudges with a reluctant police commissioner becomes more urgent when an ambitious journalist draws the killer’s attention.

A powerful matriarch falls to her death during her eightieth birthday celebration on a remote island. Convinced it was murder, Ian and novelist Berit investigate family secrets while deepening winter threatens to trap them alongside the killer.