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When Eleanor accidently stumbles upon her grandmother’s murder scene, she comes face to face with her killer. The catch is, she has prosopagnosia—face blindness—, so she’s unable to recognize them. As the days pass, she remains haunted and increasingly paranoid by her death, and when a lawyer calls her to inform that she’s inherited her old family manor in the Swedish woods, she decides to visit it with her long-time boyfriend along with the lawyer himself. However, as a blizzard sets in, they’re all stuck inside … with possibly the killer, and she has to figure who it is before it’s too late. The Resting Place  by Camilla Sten is a twisty turvy domestic thriller and an intimate portrait of a dysfunctional family that’ll constantly leave you guessing. However, I’m entirely conflicted on this one because I had night and day experiences between the story’s two POVs. On one hand, we have Eleanor’s POV where her story is like a classic psychological thriller: a group of people are stuc...

Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt grew up with her grandmother’s tales about “The Lost Village”—an old mining town whose 900 residents vanished without a trace. Its only sole survivor was a newborn found abandoned in the village’s schoolhouse, and among those who disappeared were her grandmother’s own sister and parents.  Determined to get to the bottom of it, Alice brings a small documentary crew made up of her friends to investigate.  However, things start to go awry. They can’t quite shake the feeling that they’re being watched. They keep hearing eerie laughter. Their equipment is mysteriously destroyed. A person goes missing, and panic starts to set in. There is something truly haunting about watching videos of people exploring old, derelict buildings, and The Lost Village by Camilla Sten manages to perfectly capture that. It oozes creepiness and atmosphere with every page.  I have to say though … I was a little surprised about the formatting. Going in, I was a...