Searching for Ghosts of the Past Can Be Deadly (The Lost Village suspense review)
As much as I love crafting ( and imbibing, just so we’re clear, here ) a delightfully-complex cocktail, there’s also much to be said for the beautiful simplicity of something like a G&T, which creates its own magic with just three meager ingredients. The same holds true—for me, anyway—with storytelling; while I’m all for becoming completely ensnared by a labyrinthine tale [when done well , mind you—I enjoy crappy stories no more than I do crappy drinks], there’s an undeniable power to a simpler story, when told really, really well… which is exactly what Camilla Sten manages to do in her unputdownable new suspense, The Lost Village . _______________ Alice Lindstedt has had two passions for as long as she can remember: making movies (hence her film school degree), and trying to solve a fifty-plus-year-old family mystery (the inexplicable disappearance of an entire Swedish village—including her grandmother’s whole family—back in 1959). When—by chance, as much as anything—she m