num_pages: 384
description: 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.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Terra Alta
publisher: Planeta