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Even the Darkest Night

Javier Cercas

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Even the Darkest Night won Spain's biggest literary prize and was an international best seller. 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.

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Publisher
Random House
Year
2026
ISBN-13
9798217008957
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Justice and revengeRedemptionPolice investigationCorruptionComing of age

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