The newest psychological thriller from Camilla Sten. I haven’t read her other novel yet, The Lost Village, but I’ve heard it’s excellently disturbing and frightening. The Resting Place seems to be promoted as suspense and even horror, but I found it to be quite tame and more of a slow burn. It has an interesting concept with the protagonist having prosopagnosia (face blindness). Definitely makes solving mysteries and identifying killers difficult, not to mention daily interactions and interpersonal relationships. The family drama in this one was quite complicated and even confusing to keep track of at times. Secluded estates always make for perfect creepy settings though!

This is one of those books that I enjoyed while I was reading it, but felt there was something missing. I think I wanted more suspense or maybe for it to be a bit darker since that’s what I was expecting. I also think the family tree needed to be less complex or explained better and earlier on. But if you like your thrillers more mild and don’t want to get too freaked out this might be a good fit!

Thank you Netgalley, St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books and Macmillan USA for the gifted ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Camilla Sten blew me away again! I really enjoyed The Lost Village, so when I saw Camilla Sten had another book I had to read it. The current day story line is a slow burn. A distraught Eleanor, at a home she didn't know her grandmother owned, keeps having weird experiences. There's just enough going on to build suspense and keep the reader engaged, but it's not over the top crazy action. The interspersed chapters from the diary of Anushka are innocent enough to not give anything away too early, but interesting enough to add to the suspense. Towards the end, the suspense hits its peak and everything goes crazy. I was able to figure out a few of the twists before they were revealed, but I was blindsided by others. Overall a fantastic book by an author that's quickly becoming a must read.

Although I love thrillers and mysteries, this book work for me. I found the pacing to be slow, the story predictable and the characters were flat. Also, some details just didn't add up or couldn't be explained. I am happy that so many other readers seemed to connect with and enjoy this book.

<i>Resting Place</i> by Camille Sten is a page-turner. A murder, a manor house deep in the Swedish countryside, longstanding family conflicts, and a blizzard provide plenty of atmosphere, questions and chills. Ms. Sten knows how to write an eerily compelling mystery. I read until I absolutely had to go to bed, and then bits of <i>Resting Place</i> intruded on my dreams. The surprising denouement will leave you pondering. <i>Resting Place</i> will be released on March 29, 2022. I’m looking forward to another book by this author.

I received an ARC for my fair review.

The Resting Place is a very enjoyable mystery with multiple plot twists. Chapters switch between the modern protagonist and an earlier character and slowly disclose the history that has created the current scenario being played out in a secluded estate during a snowstorm. Interesting and well written premise that held my interest.

Super creepy story. A fast read with lots of suspense and drama. Couldn’t put it down.

Thank you Netgalley for this arc

The Resting Place by Camilla Sten ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A big thanks to @minotaur_books and @netgalley for the ARC! This one comes out March 29.

Sten is a master of alternating timelines. I found the past/present structure to be effective in maintaining the tension in this story.

The setting was so spooky - an abandoned estate away from everything in a blizzard. It oozed creepy from the beginning.

The face blindness aspect didn’t play as much of a role as I expected it to. While it was there, I felt it could have been explored a bit more.

My only small complaints are the pace and characters. I felt it slowed down in the middle. But once the action started, it moved very quickly. Also, while the characters were distinct, I didn’t really connect with any of them. I didn’t dislike them; I just never connected with them.

Overall, I really enjoyed this suspenseful family drama. I was pleasantly surprised with how things played out, and I found this to be a great spooky read.

This was an interesting book. I found it sad and a little frightening about the heroine's condition. She had to learn other ways to get through life

This book has a wonderfully creepy gothic feel to it with family secrets, murders, and plenty of people who could have been the 'bad guy (or girl!')'. The writing kept me engaged throughout as I tried to figure out who did what and I admit to being totally surprised by the reveal. I was also somewhat disappointed by the ending for some reason but it's still a great read.

Camilla Sten is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!
The Resting Place is a story about deep.. dark.. family secrets. We follow 2 characters, in the present we follow Eleanor who after her grandmother Vivianne is murdered her and her aunt inherit the family mansion.. One she had no idea even existed. The other perspective is Anushka.. a maid living and working for Vivianne when she was a young woman..
This book was spooky and soo atmospheric..Full of twists and turns, some I saw coming and some were complete surprises,, It takes place in a mansion in the middle of nowhere in winter.. and of course while our characters are exporing a huge blizzard blows in... So when things go missing, the groundkeeper is nowhere to be found, and Eleanor has the feeling that she is being watched.. there is nowhere to go.. They are completly snowed in.. When Eleanor finds the diary of Anushka she begins to unravel the story of her families past.. and what a past it is..
I read this book in one sitting, and I can't wait to see what Camilla Sten comes out with next

I have been anxiously waiting for the author's next book since I was a huge fan of The Lost Village. Did I stay up too late reading? Why yes I did. Did I love this murder mystery and the creepy atmosphere? That would be another yes.
Eleanor is living with not only grief but also guilt and fear. Her grandmother, Vivianne, was murdered and she saw the killer. Case closed, right? Wrong, because she suffers from face blindness, so the killer could be anyone. A stranger or someone she knows, she has no idea and it is making her extremely upset, paranoid, and confused. Who would want to kill Vivianne? She wasn't the nicest person, but murder seems an unlikely outcome.
She is shocked to discover that Vivianne left a house, Solhoga, to her and her Aunt Veronika. She never even knew this estate existed, and when the family lawyer, Rickard asks her to accompany him to the house to take inventory, her curiosity leads her to say yes. Soon Eleanor, her boyfriend, Sebastian, Veronika, and Rickard are trapped in the house by a blizzard. But secrets and lies can be found in every corner, and there might be someone else there with them.
The POVs shift from Eleanor in the present to a maid, Anushka in the past. Little by little, we learn there was much more to Vivianne's life than Eleanor imagined. The setting was perfect as I never knew what was just around the corner. I guessed the twist about halfway through but still needed the author to reveal the why. It was tragic and explained a lot about why Vivianne became such a cold person.
I enjoyed this book just as much as The Lost Village and I hope more books will be translated. 4.5 stars.

** spoiler alert ** This was an intriguing read. This was probably like a 3.5 star book, but I'll give it the full 4. I was worried there would be nothing in the end to explain why Anushka became so hateful. I suspected it was to complete the farce that she really was Vivienne, however, that still wasn't satisfying to me. Why be hateful to your own daughters and granddaughter? Wouldn't the guilt have made her treat Kickie better, not worse? Why didn't she drop the act as time went on and become less of a beast? Also, how on earth did they ever get Kickie to think Anushka was Vivienne? She was five when everything happened. That is certainly old enough to be able to tell the difference between two people you lived with. I felt like that could've done with a little more hashing more. I also wish they had said what happened to Rickard in the end.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC.

I was delighted to receive this advanced copy by Camilla Sten! I have very high hopes for this and wanted a creepy read for this fall. While this book did give those atmospheric elements that I was looking for, I was absolutely lost with the characters. Every character in this book started with V, and the family dynamics and relationships were just very hard to understand. Our main character suffers from facial blindness, a condition where she cannot recognize anyone by their face but rather some detail about them. This was very interesting to read about. Overall I just got very lost and not lost in a good way reading this. It just wasn’t for me.

Thank you net galley and Minotaur books for the ARC. This was the perfect novel to read on a rainy day. It had all the elements of a great thriller that I look for. It was gothic ,eerie and had me thinking. The story centers around Eleanor who comes face to face with her grandmothers killer but due to her suffering from face blindness, she is unable to recognize this perpetrator. So in Eleanors world anyone could be the killer, and after she comes to inherits her grans mansion, she is thrown directly into this killers path. This is dual timeline novel. The alternating story is told from the POV of Anuchska, a maid who worked and lived in the mansion in 1965. Her account will reveal the mansion sinister past and its connection to Eleanors present. This book will keep you up late at night as you yearn to find out who killed Eleanor grandmother and what dark secrets the mansion is hiding in its shadowy corners.

This book is great! Would definitely recommend. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

3.5 Stars

The book starts off with a bang, a brutal death and lots of strange things happening at this house. I liked the two timelines, of two different women living in the same house. I loved how the two stories entwined so seamlessly. The remote, gothic location was really a character in and of itself and the book was very atmospheric. The ending was such a surprise and that's saying something as I don't surprise easily. This is a new author to me and I was really pleased with the unique premise of a character having prosopagnosia or "face blindness" it was a refreshing change of pace.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book. I enjoyed Sten's debut last year, so I was very excited to read her next one. The first half did a great job establishing everything and setting up the creep vibes that Sten is so good at. After the first half it just goes all downhill very very quickly (in a good way). I think I literally read the rest of the book with my mouth open the whole time. I never did figure anything out on my own. Readers are going to love this one.

Excellent story! Totally engrossing!. Looking forward to reading more by this author! Could not put this down!

This is the second novel that I have read by this author and she has a way of making slow creepy thrillers that are soo close to horror it's not even funny!
When Eleanor walked in on her grandmother's murder she came face to face with her killer but, she has prosopagnosia, so she couldn't recognize the killer. (Prosopagnosia is a disorder where a person can not recognize faces) Knowing she came face to face with the killer or whether the killer would return haunts her dreams and makes her kind of paranoid. So when the lawyer calls telling Eleanor that her grandmother had left her a house a house tucked away in the woods.
When they first arrive at the house while all the furniture is antique the house is in pristine condition, clean, and everything. Slowly while they are going through the house Eleanor is convinced she sees someone outside but when she goes outside she and Sebastian do not see anyone so she chalks it up to nerves. That's only the beginning of things.
As Eleanor gets closer to the truth and figuring out what happened there, she realizes there is so much more than she imagined and they are trapped there because of a snowstorm.
This novel is a great spooky read for October and if you love spine-tingling thrillers that border doesn't the side of horror then this should be your next read! Thank you Minotaur Books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this one!

I really enjoyed this story! This was creepy and atmospheric with characters I genuinely cared about. This was my first Camilla Sten but it won't be my last!