The Lost Village, by Camilla Sten

Book 11 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Largely caught up at this point. As usual, my link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. I am a sucker for stories about old creepy abandoned places. An abandoned mine, an abandoned house, an abandoned ship, an abandoned village: all literary catnip for me. So when I came across Camilla Sten’s The Lost Village (2022), I didn’t hesitate to snap it up. Sten is a Swedish author and The Lost Village apparently first appeared in Swedish in 2019 and was translated into English in 2022. The book was a critical and international success, launching the career of the now prolific Sten. The story: One day in 1959, the residents of the declining village of Silvertjärn disappeared. There were only two people found — a newborn, abandoned in the local school, and a young woman, tied to a pole in the town square and stoned to death. The authorities were able to find…