Spotlight: Village of the Lost Girls by Agustín Martínez
Publisher: Mobius
Publish Date: September 15, 2020
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 and most importantly: Where is Lucia and is she still alive?
Inspector 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 must not happen again. But Monteperdido has rules of its own.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Agustin 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 overhead the locals talking about a case of a missing child—the idea for Village of the Lost Girls was born and has since been translated into many languages. This is his first novel.
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