Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juurakko | 2020 | Tove Alsterdal | N/A |
| 2 | We Know You Remember / Rotvälta | 2020 | Tove Alsterdal | Buy |
| 3 | You Will Never Be Found | 2021 | Tove Alsterdal | Buy |
| 4 | Djuphamn | 2023 | Tove Alsterdal | N/A |
The High Coast series takes its name from Sweden’s UNESCO-listed northern coastline, a landscape of steep cliffs, deep fjords, and isolated villages that Tove Alsterdal uses as both setting and atmosphere. The area’s remoteness is central to the books: secrets are harder to share but harder to escape in communities where everyone has known everyone for generations.
We Know You Remember, the second book in the series and the first available in English translation, introduced many readers to the world Alsterdal had built. It follows the discovery of a body in a small coastal village, which pulls the investigation back through years of trauma and suppressed guilt. The book earned strong reviews in English-speaking markets and brought Alsterdal to a broader international audience.
The series rewards reading in order, as characters and themes develop across the books. Alsterdal writes with precision about the psychology of northern Swedish communities, where the landscape’s harshness seeps into how people relate to each other and to the crimes that surface among them.