The #1 international bestseller that inspired the Netflix series. Now available in the US, the contemporary thriller set in New York that changed the rules of the genre and inspired the #1 Netflix series, by “the Spanish Stephen King” (ABC), published in more than 60 countries. “Javier Castillo is undoubtedly the new phenomenon of European literature.” —Joël DickerNew York, 1998, Thanksgiving parade. Kiera Templeton vanishes among the crowd. After a frantic search all over town, someone finds a few tufts of hair next to the little girl’s clothing. In 2003, the day Kiera would have turned eight, her parents, Aaron and Grace Templeton, receive a strange package at home, a VHS tape showing one minute of Kiera playing in an unfamiliar room.
With over two million copies sold and translated into ten languages, international bestseller author Javier Castillo tests our sanity in
The Snow Girl, a dark voyage into the depths of Miren Triggs’ mind, a journalism student who begins a parallel investigation and learns that her life, as much as Kiera’s, is full of uncertainties.
After vanishing from the crowd at the 1998 Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City, Kiera Templeton's parents, Aaron and Grace Templeton, receive a package on Kiera's eight birthday in 2003 that only deepens the mystery surrounding what happened after Kiera's disappearance five years earlier.