The Soul Game
Miren Triggs • Book 2
by Javier Castillo, Kevin Gerry Dunn
Why You'll Love This
A crucified teenager, a decade-old Polaroid, and a journalist who can't stop pulling on threads that were meant to stay buried.
- Great if you want: dual-timeline mysteries where both threads feel equally urgent
- The experience: tense and propulsive — Castillo keeps pressure building from page one
- The writing: Castillo layers dread through small details, not big reveals — atmosphere-first storytelling
- Skip if: you haven't read The Snow Girl — context matters here
About This Book
When a fifteen-year-old girl is found crucified in a suburban New York church and investigative journalist Miren Triggs receives a mysterious envelope containing a Polaroid of a bound girl from nearly a decade earlier, two disturbing cases begin pulling toward each other in ways no one can predict. This second Miren Triggs thriller trades on the particular dread of secrets buried in plain sight — the kind that implicates not just killers but institutions, communities, and the systems meant to protect the innocent. The emotional stakes are personal for Miren in ways that make every discovery feel urgent and costly.
Castillo writes with a compulsive momentum that keeps the pages moving, but what distinguishes this as a reading experience is how deliberately he layers his timelines and perspectives, allowing tension to accumulate from multiple directions at once. Kevin Gerry Dunn's translation preserves the propulsive, unnerving quality of Castillo's prose — lean where it needs to be, unsettling in the quieter moments. Readers who appreciate thrillers built on psychological weight rather than shock alone will find this one lingers well past its final pages.
