Even the Darkest Night: A Terra Alta Investigation

*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 Marín from the first page to the last.Highly recommended" M W CravenA Terra Alta Investigation.Winner of Spain's biggest literary prize - the Premio PlanetaWhen Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluña 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 Misérables, and then his mother was murdered.Admiring of both Jean Valjean and Javert - but mostly