The Lost House -- Melissa Larsen, Hardcover Cooking / Wine and the inspiration for the

and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death

as they both should know by now

psychologically astute author of The Memory Police

and even friends of their enslavers

The Lost House -- Melissa Larsen, Hardcover Cooking / Wine and the inspiration for the*A USA Today bestseller* 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 young woman and her infant daughter were found buried in the cold Icelandic snow, lying together as peacefully as though sleeping. Except the mother's throat had been slashed and the infant drowned. The case was never