Even the Darkest Night: A Terra Alta Novel

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER - WINNER OF SPAIN'S BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE - The first book in the acclaimed series: 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.

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.

Author: Javier Cercas
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 06/21/2022
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780593318805

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2022 pg. 9
Booklist 04/01/2022 pg. 21
Publishers Weekly 04/25/2022