Even the Darkest Night, A Terra Alta Novel

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER WINNER OF SPAINS BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE The first book in the acclaimed series: Barcelona detective Melchor Marn is sent to the countryside to investigate a horrific double murder. Before long, it becomes clear that nothing about the case is quite as it seems.Melchor, the son of a prostitute, went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misrables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a cop.This new case, in Terra Alta, a remote region of rural Cataloniathe murder of a wealthy local man and his wifewill turn Melchors life upside down yet again.Even the Darkest Night is a thought-provoking, elegantly constructed thriller about justice, revenge, and, above all, the struggles of a righteous man trying to find his place in a corrupt world.