The Dead Falls

Description

They called her a witch. They said she asked the lake to take her.

In 1796, Ragunda Lake drained away in a single night. The mistress of Sjöbacken vanished with it. Only one person saw what really happened – a nineteen-year-old maid named Kerstin. Then Kerstin vanished too.

Two hundred and thirty years later, Elin Bodin has lost her job, her boyfriend and her flat. She comes home to the remote farm in northern Sweden to care for her grandmother. The next morning, an excavator digs a skeleton out of the clay.

A rope round the waist. A shattered skull. A blue glass bead that shouldn’t be there.

At night, her grandmother walks out onto the dead lake bed with an old iron lantern. She calls Elin by another name.

Kerstin.

Then someone leaves a note on Elin’s car: STOP DIGGING.

But Elin can’t stop. Because the deeper she digs, the closer she comes to a truth her family has buried for generations – and to the woman who is still willing to kill to keep it hidden.

Some secrets are buried. Some are buried twice.

Three women. Three centuries. One farm that swallows those who know too much.

Haunting, atmospheric and impossible to put down, The Dead Falls is a dark Nordic thriller of family secrets, buried guilt and the names that must finally be spoken aloud. Perfect for readers who love Scandinavian noir, dual-timeline mysteries and slow-burning suspense with a shocking twist.