The Lost Village: A Novel

"Make room in your favorite Nordic-noir fan’s stocking for a copy of this creepy story set in the abandoned Swedish mining town of Silvertjärn. Once a bustling outpost, since 1959, the place has been fallow – yet Alice Lindstedt, whose grandmother Margarethe was once the local nurse, can’t get Silvertjärn out of her head. She brings a film crew there to make a documentary, and everything goes wrong. What makes this thriller fresh is that it focuses on nondetective female characters who solve a decades-old mystery by thinking about how those involved once actually lived."