The Camino - by Anya Niewierra (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

From the Netherlands's most popular crime writer, a literary thriller following a woman who walks the Camino de Santiago, searching for answers about her husband's death.

Forty-four-year-old chocolatier Lotte Bonnet has been living happily in South Limburg for years with her husband Emil, a former refugee from Bosnia. But when Emil unexpectedly dies by suicide while walking the Camino de Santiago, or Way of Saint James, Lotte is devastated.

Shocked and confused, Lotte resolves to follow Emil's exact path on the Camino one year later, hoping for answers, or at least insights into what could have compelled him to take his own life. While walking the arduous trail through central France, passing idyllic villages and meeting fellow pilgrims, Lotte's thoughts are also elsewhere, in Sarajevo, as she learns the terrors of a war and shocking secrets about her husband's identity.

Inspired by the natural beauty that surrounds her, forming new friendships, and possibly a romantic connection on the Camino, Lotte is distracted as the trail grows more treacherous, and as it becomes clear someone is following her, someone who does not want her to know the truth.

Fans of Louise Penny's Inspector Armand Gamache will be delighted by Lotte's easy charm and enthralled by the revelations on her journey. Anya Niewierra's blockbuster mystery The Camino has taken Europe by storm and is finally available in English for the first time.

About the Author

Anya Niewierra is the number one bestselling author of the Netherlands, dubbed by the press as the new queen of Dutch literature. She has written six books, all of them immense bestsellers. Her breakthrough book The Camino has sold well over 800,000 copies in the Netherlands, won both the NS Reader's Award and the Hebban Crime Award, and was the bestselling and most borrowed book of the year in the Netherlands in 2024, spending over 170 weeks on the bestseller list. It's currently being made into an international television series and has been published in multiple languages. Niewierra was a director in the tourism industry for over thirty years, and lives and writes in South Limburg, close to the Belgian and German borders. Her childhood years within the serene abbey walls of Rolduc, as well as her life in Northern Catalonia, inspired Niewierra to write The Flower Girl, for which she won her first Hebban Crime Award. She's renowned for her research, love of nature, and her layered characters. Her latest book, The Nomad, was a number one bestseller on the day of release.