Un crimen terrible sacude la apacible comarca de la Terra Alta: los propietarios de su mayor empresa, Gráficas Adell, aparecen asesinados tras haber sido sometidos a atroces torturas. Se encarga del caso Melchor Marín, un joven policía y lector voraz llegado desde Barcelona cuatro años atrás, con un oscuro pasado a cuestas que le ha convertido en una leyenda del cuerpo y que cree haber enterrado bajo su vida feliz como marido de la bibliotecaria del pueblo y padre de una niña llamada Cosette, igual que la hija de Jean Valjean, el protagonista de su novela favorita: Los miserables. Partiendo de ese suceso, y a través de una narración trepidante y repleta de personajes memorables, esta novela se convierte en una lúcida reflexión sobre el valor de la ley, la posibilidad de la justicia y la legitimidad de la venganza, pero sobre todo en la epopeya de un hombre en busca de su lugar en el mund A terrible crime shakes the peaceful region of the Terra Alta: the owners of their largest company, Graphics Adell, are killed after being subjected to heinous torture. Melchor Marín, a young policeman and voracious reader arrived from Barcelona four years ago, is in charge of the case, with a dark past that has made him a legend of the body and that he believes he has buried under his happy life as husband of the librarian of the town and father of a girl named Cosette, like the daughter of Jean Valjean, the protagonist of his favorite novel: The Miserable. Starting from that event, and through a thrilling narrative 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.
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