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Even the Darkest Night

A Terra Alta Novel

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INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • WINNER OF SPAIN’S BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE • Barcelona detective Melchor Marín 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 this “sweeping romantic novel in the form of a police procedural” (Wall Street Journal).

The first book in the internationally acclaimed series: 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 Misérables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a cop.

This new case, in Terra Alta, a remote region of rural Catalonia—the murder of a wealthy local man and his wife—will turn Melchor’s 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. Suspense Mystery Fiction Literary Fiction Genre Fiction World Literature Latino American United States

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The book was very well written and powerful.
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I’m using the space of the 15 word minimum to say that this was an amazing book.

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Loved the weaving of history, culture, les miz, and big ideas with just enough mystery and procedural. Narrator great. Yes, it might have been more fluid in original spanish but I grew to really like the obvious translation vibe… introducing a certain intimacy, intrigue and realness as I looked on as these thoughts and events unfolded .

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This is just OK. I was expecting more from this book. it wasn't much of a mystery. The translation was a bit stilted and awkward at times and made the writing seem choppy.

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