The Lost Village: A Novel [Paperback]

*BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER FOR THE YEAR* for NPR

Come for the mounting horror and scares, but stay for a devastating examination of the nature of family secrets. -New York Timesbook review

[A] scary, highly entertaining debut...that pays homage to Shirley Jackson. -South Florida Sun Sentinel

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The Blair Witch ProjectmeetsMidsommarin this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense.

Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed The Lost Village, since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmothers entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were lefta woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newbornhave plagued her. Shes gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.

But there will be no turning back.

Not long after theyve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice:

They are not alone.

Theyre looking for the truth&
But what if it finds them first?

Come find out.

CAMILLA STEN has been writing stories since she was a young girl and is famously one of the most important sounding boards for her crime-writing mother, Viveca Sten. In 2019, she stepped out of her mothers shadow and published the now internationally acclaimed, hair-raising novel The Lost Village. Rights for The Lost Village have been sold lã’