A seven-year-old boy missing

A mystery silenced for thirty years

What happened to Daniel Miller?

Staten Island, 1981. Daniel Miller’s bicycle is found abandoned near his home. There is no trace of the boy. Thirty years later, in 2011, investigative journalist Miren Triggs from the Manhattan Press follows a lead that leads her to the terrible discovery of a corpse with sealed lips.

Miren Triggs and Jim Schmoer, her former journalism professor, will try to uncover what links both cases while helping Ben Miller, Daniel’s father and former FBI inspector, to reconstruct his son’s disappearance one last time. They will delve into the depths of a puzzle full of twists where the voices of the past echo. What happened to Daniel? Who is behind the horrible murder? Can silence be the refuge of truth?

After selling more than 2,500,000 copies of his previous novels, Javier Castillo brings back Miren, his most iconic character, and returns to the universe of La chica de nieve and El juego del alma. La grieta del silencio is a work of high-impact narrative in which Castillo displays his mastery to offer readers a labyrinthine novel, a symphony that resonates deep within, effervescent and enigmatic, where pain and old wounds return like the echo of the secrets we actually keep silent.