Javier Castillo He is one of the most successful writers on the current literary scene. This achievement has reached the television universe with the adaptation from one of his novels The snow girl, which can be seen in Netflix. From Malaga, in his adolescence he used to write short stories until he decided to self-publish his first work, an experience that turned out very well for him. Now there are 6 with The crystal cuckoo and have also been translated into several languages. We review them.
Javier Castillo — Novels
- The day that sanity was lost
Posted in 2017, was a commercial success, first on the Internet and then on paper. It became the literary phenomenon of recent times and sold more than 1.200.000 copies.
Set in Boston, its story begins on December 24 with a man who walks naked with the decapitated head of a girl. Immediately, two characters investigate the fact, the Dr Jenkins, director of a psychiatric center, and stella hayden, an FBI agent.
It worked for the always effective love hate relationship resource between the protagonists, a good intrigue mixed with action that makes reading very agile.
- The day love was lost
It was logical that repeat the formula with the second title that makes up this bilogy. He sets it again in the United States, this time in Manhattan, and also in December. In the beginning it also resembles the previous one, with a young man full of bruises who appears naked in the facilities of the FBI carrying several notes in hand. Now, however, who is investigating the case is the Inspector Bowring, Head of the Criminology Unit, who will try to discover what has happened and the connection to a case that occurs shortly after and that the girl had already written down in one of the papers.
- Everything that happened with Miranda Huff
Along the lines of those books with similar titles on the disappearance or fate of some character, normally female, the following novel introduces us to a couple in crisis, Miranda and Ryan Huff, who to fix their situation, decide to spend a weekend in a refuge in the middle of nature. But what seemed like a few romantic days are complicated when the husband arrives at the cabin where they are staying and finds the door open, two glasses of wine on the table, the bathroom full of blood and nobody inside or outside. .
In short, a thriller psychological in which it will not be known until the end if Miranda is alive or dead.
- The snow girl
Two-part story about the mysterious disappearance in New York of Kiera Templeton, a three-year-old girl, in 1998 and in the midst of the massive Thanksgiving parade. After searching the whole city for her, they find some strands of hair next to the clothes she was wearing. But they end up closing the case.
Five years later, on Kiera's birthday, her parents, Aaron and Grace, receive a video tape on VHS with a minute of recording where the girl is seen playing in a room that they are unable to locate. The police do not reopen the case at first and allow a young journalism student, Miren Triggs, investigate on your own. What she discovers also connects her to events in her own life.
The adaptation that Netflix makes in its series transfers the facts to the south of Spain, with characters from here, and places the kidnapping of the girl during the Three Kings parade. And in the distribution they are milena smith y Jose Coronado.
- The game of the soul
Title that returns us to New York and with another girl who appears in strange circumstances in a suburb of the city. Again we have the previous protagonist, Look Triggs, what time is it investigative journalist from the Manhattan Press and one day receives a strange envelope. Inside there is a photography which shows a gagged, handcuffed teenager with a footnote. Together with her former journalism professor, Jim Schmoer, Miren will begin to investigate to the girl and her connection with the envelope received and a religious institution that keeps many secrets.
- The crystal cuckoo
redevelops in NY. The protagonist is Cora Merlo, a first-year medical resident, who after suffering a infarct they transplant a heart urgently. While she recovers, she decides to move to steelville, a small town, next to Charles's mother, the donor. But soon he will see that in that house not everything is what it seems. Also, just the day he arrives a baby goes missing in a public park.
If you like the stories of intriguing and easy reading, Javier Castillo's books are a good option.