'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 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 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 Confession

アグスティン・マルティネスが描くのは、ピレネー山脈の険しい自然が人々の罪を飲み込む巨大な迷宮です。五年を経て生還した少女がもたらすのは希望ではなく、平穏な村の皮膜を剥ぎ取る残酷な真実。心理描写の濃密さは、読者を霧深い閉鎖社会へと引きずり込み、記憶と欺瞞の本質を鋭く抉り出します。 映像化作品では圧倒的な山岳の威容が不穏な静寂を際立たせますが、原作は主人公の内面にある繊細な心の傷をより克明に描写しています。映像版の緊張感とテキストならではの深い思索、この二つが重なったとき、物語が秘める多層的な悲劇は真の完成を迎えるのです。