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2000s: Everyone in Madrid remembers the kidnapping of Nicolás Acosta
I Am Not a Monster
What you need to know before your trail
No one has forgotten the unsolved kidnapping of four-year-old Nicolás Acosta. It galvanized Madrid, shaking it to its core.
Two years later, another young child—similar in age and appearance to Nicolás—disappears from the same suburban shopping mall, drawing Chief Inspector Ana Arén back into the case she could never close. This is her chance at redemption.
As fears of a serial kidnapper threaten to consume the city once again, Ana’s friend, reporter Inés Grau, jumps at the chance to cover it. But the pressure on Ana is greater than ever as she straddles an ethical line.
How much information is she willing to leak to Inés to solve the case? How much is she willing to accept from a brilliant computer hacker she trusts with her life? The investigation becomes even more personal for Ana when Inés’s own son disappears. As the truth slowly begins to surface, Ana finds herself on shifting ground, facing a shocking reality that may drag her under…
Travel Guide
Madrid
Not the side of the city you’d want to see in real life. Locations are few and far between and vague but given the nature of the story, this is perhaps for the best. The main real locations are the police stations in and around the area of Canillas on the outskirts of the city.
The horror of the setting is that this kidnapping of a child takes place in a shopping mall outside of a city. IT could be any city and because it’s a more rural location than perhaps in the very centre of the city, you would expect the location to be a safer one.
A city wracked with guilt and fear when a child goes missing. Wherever you might go or move later on, the feeling of loss for the mother and the police involved never leaves them, so locations is very fluid here as there’s no escape.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: I Am Not a Monster
Destination : Madrid Author/Guide: Carme Chaparro Departure Time: 2000s
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