Eleanor walks in on her cruel grandmother Vivianne’s murder, but her prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces) leaves her unable to identify who she saw.

The introduction of The Resting Place puts you right in that police interview room after the crime before going back in time to the events that led up to that room. Now five months later, still with no idea who could be the killer or how close they are, Eleanor has inherited one of her grandmother’s homes and everything helps to contribute to the creepy, atmospheric power of this read.

This book alternates between Anushka in 1965 and Eleanor present day. This book was a great read! From the creepy inherited manor to the discovered diaries, never knowing who it was that Eleanor walked in on murdering her grandmother, and the alternating stories. I think sometimes, especially early on before you get truly invested, that back and forth with the time can feel like it’s giving you whiplash, but once you get started, you’re in!

Thank you to Netgalley, St. Martins Press, and Camilla Sten for this ARC.

This book is going to be great for readers who enjoy a creepy, gothic atmosphere and a plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout!

I had a hard time getting into this one at first. But once I got going with it, I liked it a lot. This is the second book I have read about prosopagnosia in the past few months, so some of that felt really similar. I love the Nordic Noir locked room mystery vibes, these are two of my favorite tropes. I was not surprised by the ending, so that was a bit lacking for me. Overall, I liked it and can’t wait to read this author again!

Spine-tingling and absolutely engrossing.

You guys know I love my dual timelines, this one delivers one that has you on the edge of your seat! Buried family secrets, face blindness and murder!

Eleanor suffers from a condition where she is unable to recognize faces. This creates the biggest problem when she walks in on her grandmother being murdered. However cruel her grandmother was to her, Eleanor takes the death very hard and suffers from fear the killer will come back.

Several months after the death Eleanor learns about a secret estate her grandmother kept from her. A lawyer wants to meet her there to take inventory and prep to sell. Here she uncovers buried family secrets.

A slow burn thriller but with creeptastic vibes on edge with tension. If you like Alice Feeney or Kate Morton you will love this one!

Thank you to Minotaur Books, NetGalley and Camilla Sten for the gifted earc, and redreadreviews for the giveaway win of the physical copy.

The Resting Place tells the story of Eleanor as she inherits a strange house she never knew was in her family until her grandmother was murdered in front of her. Yes, it is as crazy as it seems!

I loved the atmospheric setting of this book and how it just ropes you in! Eleanor was such a flawed character and I loved watching her grow throughout the story! I really enjoyed the present day story telling with journal entries mixed in. I was so into the story and did not see the resolution coming!! This book literally had me scared. I couldn't read it alone! This is definitely not for the faint of heart but my goodness was the story so good!! LOVE LOVE LOVE!! Camilla Sten is a must read author for me from here on out!!

I believe it’s true that secrets don’t die. They always rise up to the surface, sometimes literally, like in this case, where a diary hidden under the floorboards exposes lies and betrayal.

I thoroughly enjoyed both the audio and paper versions of Camilla Sten’s @wednesdaysten The Resting Place. There’s a spooky old house, a winter storm that makes escape impossible, and an unknown assailant. All the elements for #thrillerthursday 🏠 ❄️ 🩸

Thanks to my partners at @minotaur_books for my early copy and the super cute journal and to @macmillan.audio and @netgalley for my early audio version. The Resting Place will be out on Tuesday, but, if you’re looking for a weekend read, check out last year’s The Lost Village!
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Camilla Stern is quickly becoming one of my favorite thriller authors. "The Resting Place" is psychological suspense at its best. The atmosphere created by the author's words is completely chilling. I can't imagine how creepy this book would be if I could read it in its original language! Told through dual timelines, Ms. Stern deftly unveils a plot of intrigue and deception. It is full of twists and turns, and almost every character is a suspect at some point! I find most psychological thrillers to be poorly written and predictable, but not this one!

I absolutely devoured this book and now will impatiently wait for the Ms. Stern's next work.

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for the privilege of reading an advanced digital copy of this fabulous book, in exchange for my honest review.

A blizzard set book was the perfect way to say goodbye to winter. This was pretty creepy and I caught myself looking around to make sure I was alone because I was feeling very unsettled reading it. I enjoyed the two storyline - one set in the present and another in the past with a different POV. I saw the twist coming but enjoyed it nonetheless. I feel like a lot of characters now “stick it out” when they clearly are being hunted so it was refreshing to see characters who knew they were in a bad spot and tried their hardest to get out. Overall, a solid atmospheric thriller!

Eleanor can’t recognize faces. She needs context and patterns in movement to recognize people in her life. Which makes her the worst witness to a murder. She walks right by the person who kills her grandmother. Later, she and her aunt are called by a lawyer to inventory the house she didn’t even know existed. Her inheritance. Once there, she realizes that something is not right.

Decades earlier the family inhabits the same home. The madness that grows there will change the life of Eleanor. As more and more people are harmed, the past and the present meet. Camilla Steen’s The Lost Village had the same slow burn and creepiness. The same inevitable crawl toward a horrible truth. A truly sickening story.

This was an excellent page turner from the author of last years The Lost Village. If you enjoyed that book I think you will also like this one. This is the second book I’ve read this year where the main character has prosopagnosia, it is a medical condition that does make for an interesting mystery.

This book is about Eleanor visiting the secret rural mansion her recently deceased grandmother, Vivianne, never told her about and events that happen there past and present. This book has an interesting setting with fleshed out characters. I really enjoyed it and it was a very fast read.

If you like the books of Simone St James and CJ Tudor then I think you will like this one.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the free e-arc I received in exchange for my honest review. #SecretsDontDie #NetGalley

OHMIGOSH, Camilla Sten has become a favorite of mine! I don't get creeped out easily and she can do it! This is the second novel I have read that uses prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces) as a plot point. I found that very far-fetched with the other book description, but I loved the author, so she sold me on it and after reading this authors' previous book, I had enough trust to give this one a shot too. WOW, WOW, WOW is all I can say! I could not put this down!! The story centers around a lonely, creepy mansion and two women with two different stories. Eleanor, whose murdered Grandmother owns it and Anushka who lived there in the past. What should be an overdone cliche (lonely, creepy mansion plotline) is so well written that I can actually see all the detail in my head and feel the surrounding dread. I also was in love with both characters and storylines and could not wait to see it all come together. I was not disappointed! I cannot recommend Camilla Sten enough! I just hope she writes faster!

Thank you to #NetGalley, Camilla Sten and St. Martin's Press, Minotaur Books for this ARC!

wow !! This book literally had me hooked from the first page !! I love thrillers that have unique plots and this one definitely had an amazingly twisty one !!

triggers: murder, miscarriage, depression, anxiety, infidelity, suicide.

After seeing her grandmother Vivianne be brutally murdered, she comes face to face with the killer. the problem is Eleanor has a medical condition called prosopagnosia, which causes her brain not to remember faces the same was as others do--she has NO IDEA what the killer looked like. After months of therapy and the cops closing the case, Eleanor gets a call from a lawyer saying Vivianne left her a house. Looking for answers to her families history, Eleanor, Her bf Sebastian, her aunt Veronika and the lawyer set out the creepy abandoned house in the middle of the Swedish woods--not ready for what is waiting for them there.

This book is told in alternating timelines and POV- present day Eleanor and past, Anushka, the housemaid for her grandmother over 50 years ago. This book had some amazing characters!! Some that you loved, and some that you loved to hate. The setting of the book was spot on- old, creepy house, middle of the Swedish woods, during a blizzard really set the tone for all things creepy. The way Sten writes from Eleanor's POV as anxious and jumpy, makes you feel that way... on the edge of your seat waiting for something to pop out at you.

This is definitely a book a could not put down- the chapters were short, full of secretes, murder, deception, revenge and the further you get, the more tangled the web gets- until its all unraveled and your jaw drops !! Another really great thing I will mention is that this book was originally written and translated beautifully into English. The translator, Alexandra Fleming, did an amazing job. I highly recommend this book and look forward to reading more from her!!!

The Resting Place by Camilla Sten is a gothic locked-room mystery set in a remote mansion in Sweden. The story is told in dual timelines, in present-day and the 1960s. The present-day is told in Eleanor’s perspective, a woman around 30 whose grandmother was murdered some months earlier. Though she saw the culprit run past her, she could not identify them because she suffers from face-blindness, which added to the ominous, paranoid feeling of the novel. She has inherited the family’s mansion she never knew about, that hasn’t been occupied by the family for decades. The 1960s story is told in the perspective of Anushka, Eleanor's grandmother’s maid and cousin from Poland.

Eleanor's grandmother Vivianne raised her and was very ascerbic and cold as a caregiver. After Vivianne's grisly death, Eleanor learns she has inherited a mysterious, remote property and visits with her boyfriend, estranged aunt, and an estate lawyer in order to itemize everything on the property for potential sale. They visit in winter and strange inexplicable things start occurring and we start to learn about unspoken family secrets. I found the story fascinating and wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I really enjoyed Angela Dawe’s audiobook narration. The voices she used for each character, especially for the cantankerous Vivianne.

Thank you St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio for providing this ebook / audiobook ARC in exchange for an honest review.

THE RESTING PLACE by Camilla Sten

Told in alternating points of view I found myself wanting to live in one world more than the other.

In the present tense, Eleanor suffers from Prosopagnosia. Also known as face blindness. When I read a few quick facts about this disorder I became even more fascinated by what you could do with a character who suffers from this.

Not only do they have trouble recognizing people they know, they also cannot tell between unknown faces and also can mistake faces for objects.

The anxiety this brings is palpable and does not get lost in the translation.

So you take this character who is disabled and use of her extrasensory perceptions to try and figure out how much danger she’s really in. And by the time she realizes the malice she’s already the frog in hot water.

Very good!
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Coming March 29, 2022
Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio/ St Martins Press for this advanced copy!

4.5 stars

I have quickly become a fan of Camilla Sten’s writing, and The Resting Place is a perfect example of how masterfully she can weave the web of a suspenseful novel.

Eleanor has a unique condition called prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, so she relies on specific markers to be able to identify people in her every day life. When she walks in on the murder scene of her grandmother, Vivianne, she comes face to face with the killer but is unable to recognize them.

It isn’t until Eleanor is notified by a lawyer that Vivianne has left her a house that she learns just how secretive and dark her grandmother’s past was. Eleanor, along with the lawyer, her boyfriend Sebastian, and her aunt Veronika, goes in search of answers at her grandmother’s estate, but as the truth comes to light, they learn that some secrets are meant to remain buried.

This truly was a fantastic psychological suspenseful, and I enjoyed getting the backstory of Vivianne’s family while living on the estate. I never imagined the depths she would go to to keep the truth hidden, but I was quite surprised when the truth was revealed. Highly recommend!

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After her grandmothers brutal murder, Eleanor inherits a mansion in the Swedish countryside, that she never knew existed. When Eleanor arrives at the house she can’t fight this feeling that someone is watching her. What she doesn’t realize is that the house is about to reveal all her family's dark secrets which have been buried for a long time.

I devoured this book! I loved Camilla Sten’s writing style. Alternating between the past and present, Sten does a great job at transporting you into this cold and creepy mansion! Short chapters filled with murder, secrets and revenge, this is a fast-paced thriller you won’t be able to down.

Loved the audiobook. Angela Dawe did a great job at bringing these characters to life. 

Thank you to @netgalley and @ StMartinsPress for gifting me a copy of this eARC and @MacmillanAudio, for the ALC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you Netgalley and Minotaur books.
I will start off by saying this wasnt all bad.
I did not love this one but there were some good parts. Once the story picked up it did move at a fast pace and while I did guess some of the Twist the main twist I did not. The reason I did not like it was just because I could not connect to any character. I felt they were all just Blah. No personality for any of them.
Would I recommend this to someone- Probably not but I would say if you planned on reading this do. Make your own judgement.

Eleanor was the one who found her grandmother Vivianne murdered and she's had a tough time since in part because she saw but could not identify the killer due to her face blindness. Now, she's shocked to discover that Vivianne owned an estate, a creepy large estate with a vast wine cellar. Along with her boyfriend Sebastian and her aunt Veronika, she meets up with Rickard, a lawyer to do an inventory. And then the weird stuff starts- all of it compounded by her face blindness. Mixed into the narrative are pieces from Annika/Annuska, a maid at the estate who worked for Ma'am and Sir. Her identity and importance to the story is revealed slowly. This amps up as the snow builds. Who can Eleanor trust? No spoilers but know that this might seem a bit slow in parts but will twist around and around for the answers which are really right there all along. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. A good read.

The main character of The Resting Place, Eleanor, suffers from a rare condition called prosopagnosia - otherwise known as face blindness. Eleanor can’t recognize people, even her loved ones or herself, and relies on hints such as voice or distinctive marks. One evening Eleanor goes to visit her grandmother, Vivianne, but the door opens someone Eleanor can’t place, who disappears without making a single sound. When Eleanor enters the house, she finds her grandmother lying in a pool of blood - her killer was close enough for Eleanor to touch, but she has no idea who they are. After the funeral, Eleanor finds out that her grandmother left her a mansion in the middle of nowhere. But when she gets there with her boyfriend, aunt, and a lawyer, things quickly spiral and she begins to uncover family secrets that threaten to put her life in jeopardy.

I was fascinated by the premise of this book. Face blindness is such a curious condition and I was excited to read a book that features it. It started out strong and I loved the creepy, strange atmosphere that Sten created, but unfortunately the ending didn’t blow me away. There were many plot twists and red herrings, but despite the fact that I could see some of them from miles away, I enjoyed the book until the last chapters. There things got just way too difficult to believe, plus I wasn’t a big fan of the way Sten writes about mental health issues. I had a similar problem with her other book I read, so it might be a sign that her writing just isn’t for me. I didn’t feel strongly about any of the characters except for Eleanor, who grew the most throughout the book, and who ended up my favorite.

TLDR: The Resting Place is a dark, slow paced thriller set in a remote Swedish estate, great for anyone who loves family drama and murder.

The Resting Place by Camilla Sten
Easily one of the best books I have read in quite a while! I found myself immersed in the story trying to figure out what the heck was going on, absolutely page turning. I will be looking to read everything by this author, she knows how to draw you in and keep you there until the very end. Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book and leave my opinion.