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Even the Darkest Night - A Terra Alta Investigation (Paperback)
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Even the Darkest Night - A Terra Alta Investigation (Paperback)
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*Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022* "A gem of a book, easily
the best I've read this year. A contemporary police procedural with
a literary edge. I was rooting for the flawed, but deeply
compassionate Melchor Marin from the first page to the last. Highly
recommended" M W Craven A Terra Alta Investigation. Winner of
Spain's biggest literary prize - the Premio Planeta When Melchor
goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer
and his wife in rural Cataluna nothing quite adds up. The young cop
from the big city, hero of a foiled terrorist attack, has been sent
to Terra Alta till things quieten down. Observant, streetwise and
circumspect, Melchor is an also an outsider. The son of a Barcelona
prostitute who never knew his father, Melchor rapidly fell into
trouble and was jailed at 19, convicted of driving for a Colombian
drug cartel. While he was behind bars, he read Hugo's Les
Miserables, and then his mother was murdered. Admiring of both Jean
Valjean and Javert - but mostly the relentless Javert - he decided
to become a policeman. Now he is out for revenge, but he can wait,
and meanwhile he has discovered happiness with his wife, the local
librarian, and their daughter, who is, of course, called Cossette.
Slowly at first, and then more rapidly once ordered to abandon the
case, he tracks the clues that will reveal the larger truth behind
what appears at first to be a cold-blooded, professional killing.
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
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