Village of the Lost Girls
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By Agustín Martínez
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‘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
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Initially group members thought this book looked good and were excited to read it but then quite a few just couldn't get into it at all. Individual reviews below: Overall, I enjoyed this book and was quite gripped by the twists and turns of the story. However, I was quite saddened by how blinkered and insular the villages were portrayed as, ignoring goings- ons that weren't right, willfully disregarding things they felt did not affect them (E.g. daughter being beaten/mistreated, hotel being used as a high class brothel). I hope societies/communities are not really like that. I was also irritated by the...
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