{"product_id":"even-the-darkest-night-1","title":"Even the Darkest Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e *\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Summer Books 2022*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA 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 Craven\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Terra Alta Investigation. Winner of Spain's biggest literary prize - the Premio Planeta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e, and then his mother was murdered. Admiring of both Jean Valjean and Javert - but mostly the relentless Javert - he decided to become a policeman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow he is out for revenge, but he can wait, and meanwhile he has discovered happiness with his wife, the local librarian, and their daughter, who is, of course, called Cossette.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlowly at first, and then more rapidly once ordered to abandon the case, he tracks the clues that will reveal the larger truth behind what appears at first to be a cold-blooded, professional killing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Anne McLean\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57486815789400,"sku":"9781529452266","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529452266_32a5ae77-28a8-4eae-97ed-24f1c9df6caa.jpg?v=1781164844","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/even-the-darkest-night-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}