Deux fillettes de onze ans traversent la pinède, comme tous les soirs, pour rentrer du collège. Elles n'arriveront jamais chez elles. Cinq ans plus tard, au fond d'un ravin, on retrouve une voiture accidentée, le cadavre d'un homme et une adolescente désorientée mais vivante : Ana, une des fillettes disparues. L'autre est-elle toujours en vie ? Qui se cache derrière cet enlèvement ? Les habitants de ce petit village enclavé des Pyrénées lutteront jusqu'à la mort pour cacher leurs terrifiants secrets. Un roman puissant, âpre et vertigineux à l'image de son saisissant décor.
'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
