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Fortress of Evil : The Times Crime Book of the Month Hardback
A fathers worst nightmare Melchor Marns teenage daughter has disappeared.Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mothers murder and at last found peace with his daughter Cosette in the sleepy backwater of Terra Alta.But their idyll is shattered when one day Cosette, now seventeen, discovers that her father has been concealing the truth of her mothers death that she was killed in a hitandrun "accident" intended to scare Melchor off a case.Angry and betrayed, Cosette disappears to Mallorca with her friend Elisa. And thats the last Melchor hears of her. His texts and calls go unanswered, and when she returns alone, Elisa can only say Cosette needed "space to think". Now the former policeman has no choice but to travel to Port de Pollena, where his daughter was last seen alive, and enter the dark, lookingglass world of SwedishAmerican billionaire Rafael Mattson.Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLeanPRAISE FOR EVEN THE DARKEST NIGHT WINNER OF THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION"A gem of a book, easily the best Ive read this year" M W Craven"A wonderful novel. I look forward to many more Melchor stories" A N Wilson, Tablet "Promises to be an excellent series" Guardian
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A fathers worst nightmare Melchor Marns teenage daughter has disappeared.Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mothers murder and at last found peace with his daughter Cosette in the sleepy backwater of Terra Alta.But their idyll is shattered when one day Cosette, now seventeen, discovers that her father has been concealing the truth of her mothers death that she was killed in a hitandrun "accident" intended to scare Melchor off a case.Angry and betrayed, Cosette disappears to Mallorca with her friend Elisa. And thats the last Melchor hears of her. His texts and calls go unanswered, and when she returns alone, Elisa can only say Cosette needed "space to think". Now the former policeman has no choice but to travel to Port de Pollena, where his daughter was last seen alive, and enter the dark, lookingglass world of SwedishAmerican billionaire Rafael Mattson.Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLeanPRAISE FOR EVEN THE DARKEST NIGHT WINNER OF THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION"A gem of a book, easily the best Ive read this year" M W Craven"A wonderful novel. I look forward to many more Melchor stories" A N Wilson, Tablet "Promises to be an excellent series" Guardian
Binding: Hardback;352 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FF; Weight: 720 g; Dimensions: 241 x 165 x 35
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