The Camino

More than half a million people walk the Camino de Santiago each year, and each person has their own reason for doing so. Lotte, a middle-aged wife, mother, and chocolatier from the Netherlands, is walking it exactly one year after her husband committed suicide along the pilgrimage route. Emil was a Bosnian refugee who seemed eternally happy with his life and family in the Netherlands. So Lotte tries to retrace his exact route through the French portion of the trail, staying at the same hotels and visiting every single site he did to try to understand why. But a series of near misses convinces her that someone is following her and trying to keep her from knowing the truth about what happened to her husband. Niewierra utilizes some clever plot devices to keep you guessing about characters’ true motivations. Both a page-turning thriller and a love story, The Camino poses two major questions: Who should Lotte trust when everyone she meets along the trail is a stranger? And how well do we actually know the people we love?