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 woman and her infant daughter were found buried in the Icelandic snow, lying together as if sleeping. Except the mother’s throat was slashed and the infant drowned. The case was never solved, and there were no arrests, no convictions. Just a suspicion: the husband did it. When he took his son and fled halfway across the world to California, it was proof enough of his guilt.

Now, a year after his death, his granddaughter, Agnes, is ready to clear her grandfather’s name. Still recovering from his death and her own devastating injury, Agnes is desperate to escape the shambles of her once-stable life—which is why she agrees to an interview on Nora Carver's popular true crime podcast. Agnes hops on a last-minute flight to the remote town of Bifröst, Iceland, where Nora is staying, where Agnes’s father grew up, and where, supposedly, her grandfather slaughtered his wife and daughter.

But when a local girl goes missing the same weekend Agnes arrives, Agnes and Nora’s investigation is turned upside down. Suddenly, everyone in the small Icelandic town is once again a suspect. Unearthing old and new truths alike, Agnes finds herself in a web of secrets that threaten the redemption she is hell-bent on delivering, as well as her life.

Set against the unforgiving landscape of remote Iceland, The Lost House is a chilling and razor-sharp mystery with twists that will leave you breathless.