Even the Darkest Night - A Terra Alta Investigation

"A 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 Mar-from the first page to the last. Highly recommended" M W Craven

Two dead at the Adell house . . .

But nothing in the duty officer''s report can prepare Melchor Mar-for what he finds. A wealthy couple tortured to death in an almost ritualistic manner. The little town of Gandesa in the backwater region of Terra
Alta, Catalonia, is suddenly at the eye of a media storm.

Melchor is no stranger to notoriety. He was sent to Terra Alta to lie low after foiling a terrorist attack. And, before
that, he was jailed for his role as driver for a Colombian drug cartel, his decision to join the police inspired by a
desire to avenge his mother''s murder and a copy of Les Mis-bles from the prison library.

Gradually, the leads in the Adell case dry up, and Melcho