The Lost House by Melissa Larsen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Iceland!
An unsolved murder: a mother and child found, brutally murdered, in a shallow icy grave.
A granddaughter determined to clear her grandfather’s name.
Another missing woman, in the same town.
Agnes was raised by her grandfather, who fled Iceland under suspicion of having murdered his younger wife and their newborn daughter. She is lured to Iceland when a podcaster invites her to join her investigation into this unsolved crime.
Agnes is recuperating from a serious fall which shattered one of her legs. She is in constant pain and is taking strong painkillers. So, you have to ask yourself: how reliable is Agnes?
We begin to doubt just about everyone’s motives in this very well-written thriller.
Emotions apparently run high in Iceland in The Lost House, and although I did guess the culprit (I read waaay too many thrillers!) that action-packed ending had me glued to each page. The author does an excellent job of maintaining suspense and her writing is very visual. I could easily picture the frozen countryside and the derelict, vandalized ancestral home – now abandoned and soon to be demolished.
I highly recommend this atmospheric, action packed read: I’m rating this a 4.4 out of 5. My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an ARc of this novel in exchange for an honest review. (Scheduled publication date: January 14, 2025.)
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