“A truly addictive author, whose personal stamp shines through in every paragraph.”
——Publishers Weekly

“Brilliance in every paragraph.”
——El Correo

★Ranked #1 on Amazon’s Suspense Bestseller List！
★Rights sold to Italy and Russia！
★Netflix Originals adaptation of was #1. Four new audiovisual projects with international reach.More than 1.000.000 copies sold in Spain alone!

If you want to uncover the truth, you will have to dive into the past.
Following the success of the Illumbe Trilogy and The Forgotten Son, with over 1.5 million readers, the master of the thriller returns: Mikel Santiago.

Quintana Torres is a successful writer. The media have dubbed her “the new queen of the thriller”. During a book signing in Bilbao, a former high school classmate approaches her and hands her a mysterious black envelope. Inside is a photograph from Alba’s diary — the teenager who died in suspicious circumstances, and whose story inspired Quintana’s most famous novel: The Girl by the Lake.

This discovery will lead the writer to cancel her promotional tour and return to her father’s old house in Urkizu, the small inland village in the Basque Country where it all happened. It was there, on the Night of San Juan in 1999, that Alba disappeared forever — and with her, the enigmatic diary she always carried with her.

A thriller in the purest Mikel Santiago style, in which the present-day investigation will open doors that were closed in the past, casting new light on everything that happened back then. In a relentless plot, this novel takes the reader through different settings — Bilbao, Madrid and Urkizu — following a protagonist who confronts a secret hidden for years.

Mikel Santiago was born in Portugalete (Bizkaia) in 1975. He began by writing stories and short novels, self-publishing his own ebooks online, which earned him spots on the bestseller lists of iTunes, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. He has lived in Ireland and Amsterdam and currently resides in Bilbao.

Ediciones B has published his novels The Last Night on Tremore Beach (2014), The Wrong Path (2015), The Strange Summer of Tom Harvey (2017), The Island of Last Voices (2018), The Liar (2020), In the Dead of Night (2021), Among the Dead (2022) and The Forgotten Son (2024). All of them have climbed to the top positions on the bestseller lists in Spain, have been published in around twenty countries, and have equally captivated readers and literary critics. Today, Mikel Santiago is regarded as one of the finest international thriller writers.

In 2024, Netflix is adapting his debut novel into a series titled “The Last Night in Tremor”.