A whole village of people vanishes without a trace, in 1959. There is only a severely tortured, and rotting body of a woman tied to a pole, and a wailing new born baby left behind.

Filmmaker Alice has been fascinated by the vanishing residents of this village, called Silvertjarn, and wants to make a documentary out of it. Her grandmother’s younger sister, father and mother were among those unfortunate ones that disappeared in the village.

Along with a small crew, she goes to the abandoned village to try and make a documentary about what actually happened on that fateful day and what caused the mysterious disappearance of so many people.

Soon, strange and eerie things start to happen. They see and hear someone other than themselves. A crew member goes missing and their equipment is blown up. It seems that they’re not alone in that ghost town.

The story unfolds through two different timelines, one in the past, in 1959, narrated by Alice’s great grandmother and another in the present, which is from Alice’s point of view.
This makes the story more engaging as we can see the events which led up to the incident, in the past and the discovery of the truth in the present.

The characters are well thought out with a lot of depth.

The story starts off a little slow but gets more interesting as it progresses and one wants to get to the bottom of the mystery.

It’s certainly a great addition to the thriller and mystery genres, and I would recommend this book for people who love reading books with some page turning thrills and a central mystery.

Thank you to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an advance reader’s copy for an honest review.

I'm not going to leave negative feedback for this one, because it might end up being a really good book people will like. But for me, personally, it was a DNF because I think the translation just didn't work for me as well as it might for others. I just couldn't get into this one. But I'd order it for the store...I never turn down horror titles!

What an unexpectedly good story. Without giving too much away, we see a group of young men and women going into an abandoned village to film footage for a potential documentary. Are they alone in the village? The people of the village disappeared without a trace years ago. Except for one infant. We are given glimpses of life in the village thru letters and flashbacks, and finally find out what happened to them. Very disturbing, and well written.

I didn't know what kind of story that Camilla Sten would have, but I knew that if Viveca Sten worked with her it couldn't be bad. I was amazed that it was so realistic that Alice and Tone came out of it with little to no hard breaks at all. This story Is about Alice's grandmother's story of Silvertjärn where all the people, some 1000, were lost to the world and Alice's attempt to make a documentary film about it. We have Alice and Tone plus Emmy, Alice's first friend, Max and Robert who were there for support of Alice and Emmy. What first starts off the mystery, is after Tone falls through the stairs in the school. Emmy drives for miles until she gets her mother on the phone to resolve what to do with Tone and her foot. But when she gets back and they hunt for Tone they hear a bomb go off and find their trucks and cars are destroyed with all their equipment. I won't go into detail about the rest of the story but you won't believe me with what happens. Two of the people are killed. But that's the question who did it? Tone who's missing? Read the story and find out for yourself. I gave it 4 stars out of five.

A young independent documentary film maker achieves a lifelong dream of visiting what is known as the ghost village of Silvertjarn to carry out some initial filming in preparation for a much bigger project. Alice's family lived in the village and her Grandmother has told her the story of the mass disappearance of the villagers 60 years previously, and the grisly discovery made when the outside world became aware that something had happened to the people of Silvertjarn. Am not going to say anymore about the plot as you need to read and enjoy it.

The story is told through a dual narrative then and now and the tension builds as Alice and her crew of 4 begin to feel unsettled by the atmosphere in the village. The format works well as the tension builds both in the then and now at the same time, leaving you the reader feeling unnerved, especially if you are reading it late at night. This would live happily amongst horror or mystery genres and is most definitely worth reading. I look forward to Camilla Sten's next offering.