The Lost House

In Melissa Larsen’s The Lost House comes the mesmerizing story of a young woman with a haunting past who returns to her ancestral home in Iceland to investigate a gruesome murder in her family. Forty years ago,a young woman and her infant daughter were found buried in the cold Icelandic snowlying together as peacefully as though sleeping. Except the motherΓÇÖs throat had been slashed and the infant drowned. The case was never solved. There were no arrestsno conviction. Just a suspicion turned into a certainty: the husband did it. When he took his son and fled halfway across the world to Californiait was proof enough of his guilt. Nownearly half a century later and a year after his deathhis granddaughterAgnesis ready to clear her grandfatherΓÇÖs name once and for all. Still recovering from his death and a devastating injuryAgnes wants nothing more than an excuse to escape the shambles of her once-stable lifeΓÇöwhich is why she so readily accepts true crime expert Nora CarverΓÇÖs invitation to be interviewed for her popular podcast. Agnes packs a bag and hops on a last-minute flight to the remote town of Bifr├╢stIcelandwhere Nora is stayingwhere AgnesΓÇÖs father grew upand wheresupposedlyher grandfather slaughtered his wife and infant daughter. Is it merely coincidence that a local girl goes missing the very same weekend Agnes arrives? SuddenlyAgnes and NoraΓÇÖs investigation is turned upside downand everyone in the small Icelandic town is once again a suspect. Seeking to unearth old and new truths alikeAgnes finds herself drawn into a web of secrets that threaten the redemption she is hell-bent on deliveringand even her lifeΓÇödiscovering how far a person will go to protect their familytheir safetyand their secrets. Set against an unforgiving Icelandic winter landscapeThe Lost House is a chilling and razor-sharp thriller packed with jaw-dropping twists that will leave you breathless.