Terra alta

A terrible crime shakes up the peaceful region of Terra Alta: the owners of its largest company, Gráficas Adell, are found murdered after being subjected to atrocious torture. He is in charge of the case Melchor Marín, a young policeman and voracious reader who came from Barcelona four years ago, with a dark past in tow that has made him a legend of the body and that he believes he has buried under his happy life as the husband of the librarian of the village and father of a girl named Cosette, like the daughter of Jean Valjean, the protagonist of her favorite novel: Les Misérables. Based on that event, and through a fast-paced narration full of memorable characters, this novel becomes a lucid reflection on the value of the law, the possibility of justice and the legitimacy of revenge, but especially in the epic of a man in search of his place in the world.