Camilla Läckberg's The Fjällbacka Murders, Set 1

What creative stories that keep your attention. The first story (in the first set of DVDs) is a bit grim and dark, but is not representative of the rest of the stories.This small Swedish town on the rocky Atlantic coast is very picturesque and makes for a great backdrop. Husband is the cop on the local police force, and while he and his wife have 3 small children, the wife always has some time to help out with gathering clues from the locals or evidence.We all enjoyed this series to the max. Would rate both sets A-1. Purchase both and you won't be sorry!

Item was in sealed package and wrap. 10 minutes into film video hung up and did so repeatedly. I don't mind swedish language but hanging up repeatedly was crap

I have only seen Episode One of "The Fjällbacka Murders" thus far ('Tyskungen' - 'The Hidden Child' or 'The German Child' from the original Swedish title), and I can honestly say that I am hooked, An excellent performance from Claudia Galli Concha and a darkly compelling plot make for a marvelous viewing experience.

Camilla Lackberg is a wildly popular author in Sweden, the DVD informs us. Erica Falck writes crime novels and has settled in the small town of Fjallbacka. In doing so she sets off a crime spree which must make the per capita murder rate the envy of all Sweden. Erica does not have special intuitive powers or inexorable logic, like the heroes of The Bridge or Beck. She is not an ace hacker, a groundbreaking female crime reporter, or a cranky communist like in some other nordic series. Her special powers seem to consist of a.) astounding sudden moves, like when she knocks out a suspicious person she finds with a candlestick or something b.) the ability to cycle around with a baby pram that looks like it could part a snow drift, and c.) the ability to say things which cause people to want to murder other people and sometimes her as well. In the third episode Mellberg, the police captain, figures this out! About time someone said it! Erica has been indirectly involved in the deaths of at least 10 people in a few years, judging from the growth of her family over three episodes. Does she solve the crimes? Well, maybe. She says at one point, when someone is amazed at her knowlege of insulin, that she learns a lot in researching her books. Never mind that tens of thousands of people already know this, or that the things she figures out are not all that hard to figure out. She has fun doing it! People die! It gives us a new insight on the violence of nordic people ... kanske (Swedish for maybe? Maybe). Along the way I've learned how to say goodbye in Swedish (Hey!) and good, as in How are things going? (Bra, or Bro, kanske). I hear "precis" a lot for exactly. This is definitely not on the level of The Bridge, or Beck, but it's also strangely appealing. I have to buy another three episodes. Hey!

The film did a great job in showing what Lackberg's books are like, except that in the books there are millions of twists and turns till you find out who done it! But it still was a great interpretation of her work!

Different actors but just as well done.

I watched two of these and decided to sell it to a used video store. I have the following to say about those two movies:The Hidden ChildFirstly, there are way to many flashbacks. It seems like half of the story is told in flashbacks. The actual story was way too convoluted. It required a ridiculous suspension of disbelief. In this story, I could sympathize with Erica and all of the losses she suffered. However this is just as sloppy as the next episode.The Eye of the BeholderThis was just plain silly. It meandered around for the first hour with a woman having Insulin poisoning. At this point Erica becomes convinced that it was attempted murder, with very little to go on. These gaps in logical thought somehow carry the story forward. The fact that she is right, does not absolve the writer of having Erica seem like some kind of unhinged conspiracy nut. It takes forever to events to turn to the fact that Erica's sister was wrongly accused of stealing a painting, at which point the resolution of the murders took on some urgency. However, just because Erica is married to the local cop does not mean that she should get away with stealing evidence and interfering in the course of an investigation. She should have been brought up before a judge and been made to explain her actions. Instead the murderer is caught, she puts her grown up sister to bed and has a soppy hug with her husband, just to give everything a pat ending.After watching Broen (The Bridge), Beck, Forbrydelsen (The Killing) and Wallander, I was sorely disapponted in this flawed pseudo Nordic Noir.

The scenery is fantastic. However I found the stories lacking in intensity, lacking in change of pace. On a close reading of the description of this dvd set I realized that the stories are not based on Camilla Lackberg stories. These dvd stories are written entirely by someone other than Camilla Lackberg. They do share the principle characters with Lackberg's characters but that is all. I suppose it's a little bit like watching a Miss Marple dvd that is not based on an Agatha Christy story. It's understandable that you might find the stories a little light weight in the watching.

Way too simple, her books are much more detail.

Bra serie, var som forventet i dvd form, kan anbefales!