![]() ![]() Her grandmother, Margareta, lived in the town, but had left for Stockholm to train as a nurse before the rest of the family vanished. Camilla Sten’s first novel, A New Dawn, was a dystopian thriller about right-wing extremists, but The Lost Village is her crime debut.Īlice and her film crew go to Silvertjärn to shoot some promo footage that they hope will help them win funding for the full documentary, but Alice has a personal interest in the project. ![]() The pair have collaborated on a series of young adult thrillers and on a novella. She’s the daughter of well-known crime author Viveca Sten and her mother used Camilla as a sounding board for story ideas when she was growing up. ![]() You might already recognise the author’s surname. ![]() That’s the set-up for The Lost Village, which appeared as Staden when it was first published in Sweden in 2019, and is now appearing in translation around the world. Sixty years later, documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt wants to return to Silvertjärn to find out what happened to the 887 residents and who killed Brigitta Lidman. No-one has been to Silvertjärn since and no explanation was ever found. Only two people were left behind – the body of a woman stoned to death in the village square and a baby in the school classroom. Translated by Alexandra Fleming - In 1959, the whole population of a mining village in Norrland, Sweden, disappeared. ![]()
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