Village of the Lost Girls
By (Author) Agustn Martnez
Quercus Publishing
Quercus Publishing
6th August 2019
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
863.7
Paperback
496
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 34mm
340g
'Gripping and atmospheric' - Sunday Times
A breath-taking missing persons thriller set under the menacing peaks of the Pyrenees Five years after their disappearance, the village of Monteperdido still mourns the loss of Ana and Lucia, two eleven-year-old friends who left school one afternoon and were never seen again. Now, Ana reappears unexpectedly inside a crashed car, wounded but alive. The case reopens and a race against time begins to discover who was behind the girls' kidnapping. Most importantly, where is Lucia and is she still aliveInspector Sara Campos and her boss Santiago Bain, from Madrid's head office, are forced to work with the local police. Five years ago fatal mistakes were made in the investigation conducted after the girls first vanished, and this mustn't happen again. But Monteperdido has rules of its own.'Addictive, atmospheric and haunting, one of the best books you'll read this year' - Jo Spain, internationally bestselling author of THE CONFESSIONAddictive, atmospheric and haunting, one of the best books you'll read this year - Jo Spain, internationally bestselling author of The Confession
Gripping and atmospheric - Sunday TimesCreepy and atmospheric - Woman & HomeA heart-thumping thriller - Irish MailAgustin Martinez was born in 1975 and studied Audiovisual Communications in Madrid. Today, he is one of Spain's most renowned screenwriters who has worked on some of the country's most popular crime series. On a holiday trip with his family to the Pyrenees he overheard the locals talking about the case of a missing child. The idea for Village of the Lost Girls, his first novel, was born and has been translated into many languages since.