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INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER WINNER OF SPAINS BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE 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 in thissweeping romantic novel in the form of a police procedural Wall Street Journal

The first book in the internationally acclaimed seriesMelchor 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 thoughtprovoking elegantly constructed thriller about justice revenge and above all the struggles of a righteous man trying to find his place in a corrupt world