The Resting Place
One of Goodreads Most Popular Horror of 2022
"Engrossing, character-rich, powerful. Sten is on a roll."—Publishers Weekly(starred review)
Crimson Peak meets The Sanatorium in The Resting Place, a heart-thumping, unforgettable novel of horror and suspense by international sensation Camilla Sten.
Deep rooted secrets.
A twisted family history.
And a house that will never let go.
Eleanor lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize a familiar person's face. It causes stress. Acute anxiety.
It can make you question what you think you know.
When Eleanor walked in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the killer—a maddening expression that means nothing to someone like her. With each passing day, the horror of having come so close to a murderer—and not knowing if they’d be back—overtakes both her dreams and her waking moments, thwarting her perception of reality.
Then a lawyer calls. Vivianne has left her a house—a looming estate tucked away in the Swedish woods. The place her grandfather died, suddenly. A place that has housed a chilling past for over fifty years.
Eleanor. Her steadfast boyfriend, Sebastian. Her reckless aunt, Veronika. The lawyer. All will go to this house of secrets, looking for answers. But as they get closer to uncovering the truth, they’ll wish they had never come to disturb what rests there.
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Camilla Sten
Swedish author Camilla Sten writes the kind of stories where isolation is rarely peaceful. Abandoned places, buried secrets, fractured relationships, and the uneasy suspicion that something is waiting just beyond sight have become recurring elements in her fiction, which moves between psychological suspense, horror, crime, and dark young adult fantasy.
Born in Sweden in 1992, Sten knew from an early age that she wanted to write. As a teenager, she set herself a deceptively simple challenge: write one page every day for a year. The result was her first attempt at a novel and the beginning of a habit that would eventually become a career. Books were already part of family life. Her mother, bestselling crime novelist Viveca Sten, became both an early reader and an important creative sounding board, and mother and daughter later collaborated on several novels for younger readers.
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