Overview
- 'La chica del lago' (Ediciones B) arrived in Spanish bookstores on November 11, offering an introspective thriller centered on a star novelist wrestling with the weight of past success.
- Set in the invented town of Urkizu within Santiago's recognizable Basque geography, the story shifts from his coastal Illumbe of earlier books without revealing key plot turns.
- Santiago describes the book as an amateur investigation built around buried secrets and creative anxiety, emphasizing readability and momentum over puzzle-box complexity.
- He reports a marked commercial rise since 2022, with large crowds at events and big print runs, and his publisher says his total sales exceed 1.5 million copies.
- Reflecting on screen adaptations, he says he struggled with changes to his debut's Netflix series and is working with the team to keep the Illumbe trilogy at a consistent level.