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Katarina Bivald

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Katarina Bivald is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend and The Murders in Great Diddling.

She grew up working part-time in a bookshop and lives in Sweden outside Stockholm with her books and her dog.

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	The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald (Goodreads Author), Alice Menzies (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.56 avg rating — 46,056 ratings — published 2013 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Murders in Great Diddling (Berit Gardner #1) 3.66 avg rating — 4,458 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins 3.23 avg rating — 2,380 ratings — published 2018 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Another Dead Author (Berit Gardner #2) 3.64 avg rating — 972 ratings — published 2025 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Livet, motorcyklar och andra omöjliga projekt 3.43 avg rating — 710 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dödligt nyår på Teneriffa 3.23 avg rating — 104 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liket på Tallholmen (Berit Gardner, #4) 3.45 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman Who Wouldn't Die Quietly: A Novel (Berit Gardner, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La bibliothèque des cœurs cabossés by Katarina Bivald (Goodreads Author), Carine Bruy (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

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“Can you smell it? The scent of new books. Unread adventures. Friends you haven't met yet, hours of magical escapism awaiting you.”
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“People were strange like that. They could be completely uninterested in you, but the moment you picked up a book, you were the one being rude.”
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The Couple Next Door

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11 votes, 16.2%

Swing Time

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10 votes, 14.7%

Ordinary Grace

by William Kent Krueger

7 votes, 10.3%

Before I Fall

by Lauren Oliver

7 votes, 10.3%

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

by Katarina Bivald

7 votes, 10.3%

I Will Send Rain

by Rae Meadows

4 votes, 5.9%

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