The Lost Village: A Novel [J0028]

2021 - HCDJ Excellent condition - translated from Swedish by Alexandra Fleming. NPR's Best Mystery of the Year. Addictively gripping and brilliantly chilling, The Lost Village by Camilla Sten is a pulse-pounding, riveting thriller from beginning to end. One day in 1959, an entire village of people disappeared - leaving behind only the broken body of a woman in the town square, and an abandoned newborn in a schoolroom. No one knows why they vanished. No one's been there since. Until now. 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. Her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the dead woman and abandoned baby have plagued her. She's gathered a small crew of filmmaking friends to spend a few days in the quiet village and make a film about what really happened. There will be no turning back for them. Not long after they've set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People begin to go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice: they are not alone.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "The lost village of Roanoke meets Jonestown meets Blair Witch Project"; "For me, this book has such an interesting storyline and the characters truly come to life. It is a mix of the Blair Witch Project and Midnight Mass. I love the back and forth between present day and the past."; "Such a fun, entertaining read that kept me hooked and guessing until the end. Since documentaries are my favorite film genre, I especially loved the doc-creation aspect alongside uncovering a mystery, with the added nostalgia of past familial artifacts. it really resonated with me."