About the book
Javier Castillo returns with a new and exciting thriller that will prevent you from blinking
The crystal cuckoo tells us the story of Cora Merlo, a young resident doctor who suffers a serious heart attack that will force her to receive a heart transplant.
A strange visit during her recovery will lead her to enter a small town, Steelville, full of secrets and mysteries to discover who is really hiding behind the beating of her new heart.
The author with more than 1,700,000 copies read returns with a wild novel that will conquer you from beginning to end.
Why read The Crystal Cuckoo?
Its author is already a reference in thrillers with more than 1,700,000 copies of his novels read.
The plot contains doses of mystery and suspense for lovers of crime novels.
It is a story that catches you and you will not be able to stop reading.
Discover how your heart beats
What would happen if you needed an emergency transplant but your donor was hiding between secrets and a terrifying mystery?
Delve into the story of El cuco de cristal, Javier Castillo’s new and addictive thriller that will make your heart beat loudly.
Javier Castillo, a reference for thrillers in our country
The good reception by readers of all his titles guarantees the author’s success. The day that sanity was lost, his first novel, has become a publishing phenomenon published in more than 63 countries. Her second novel, The Day Love Was Lost, achieved great success with audiences and critics, as well as Everything That Happened with Miranda Huff, The Snow Girl, which makes the leap to the screen through Netflix this year. and The game of the soul. With them it has reached the figure of more than 1,700,000 copies read. The Crystal Cuckoo is his sixth novel.
New thriller, same ingredients
Javier Castillo preserves the doses of mystery and intrigue that characterize his stories in a new, wild and fast-paced thriller that you won’t be able to put down.
An emergency transplant, a donor full of secrets and a hermetic town that will baffle Cora Merlo, the protagonist of The Crystal Cuckoo.
“I couldn’t explain why, but when I landed at the St. Louis airport that Tuesday in September I felt like I had made a mistake.”
When Cora Merlo is about to achieve one of her goals, the one she has worked so hard for—to be a resident doctor at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York—a heart attack stops her in her tracks. His heart, too big to beat properly, is about to collapse. Only a transplant could save his life.
More than 2,600 kilometers away, in Missouri, a man named Charles Finley suffers an accident and dies. A fact that will change Cora’s life and heart forever.
Still recovering after the transplant, Cora receives a visit from Margaret, a strange woman who wants to meet the recipient of her son’s heart. Intrigued to learn more about what Charles was like, Cora travels to the small town of Steelville and enters a home full of secrets and a hermetic town where, just on the day of her arrival, a baby disappears in a public park.
«It wasn’t the idea I had in mind when I mentioned that I wanted to see the town, but my heart burned to help. Something told me that this search would not end well. What was impossible to predict is that, a few hours later, my entire life was going to be blown up.
A master at constructing plots that keep the reader in suspense until the end, Javier Castillo has achieved a twist in El cuco de cristal: “It’s the most special ending I’ve ever written,” he says. The author returns to the imagery that has earned him so many millions of readers: the play of silences, the highly impactful images, the investigations and the mysteries that reveal the lives of individuals who fight to survive in a hostile environment… But on this occasion , a twist will surprise readers: “a game in which even the most clever [les costará] guess the ending.
The usurpation of affection, evil and its origins, the concept of family, the home as a refuge and what happens when it is not, the animal instinct and society and its values ​​as a brake on attitudes that go against the community are some of the background themes of a thriller that focuses on deep reflections on human existence that surround a perfectly crafted mystery, the personal mark of an author with his own style.
“The forest, or whatever was in it, swallowed up his father and never returned him.”
Violence and hospitality are the faces of two territories that the characters of a novel inhabit insecurely where we do not know where evil is hidden. Is the enemy part of our environment? Is it possible not to know that we have it nearby? Do we prefer to ignore it? Can love change the rules of the game?
Castillo uses the spawning parasitism of some species of cuckoo to show an intricate and violent reality that the reader will discover as human as so many other animal traits present in predators. And the comparison is so apt that it freezes the blood. And if not, read to judge:
«…the cuckoo grows under the warmth of a mother who hugs him ignorantly, unable to understand the impact of that dark seed planted weeks before while searching for food. Now the child he protects the most, the only one who receives all his love, is the one who played with lies and greed to destroy everything he created.
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