Terra Alta

The first volume of the "Terra Alta" trilogy by Javier Cercas. He is the son of a prostitute, and his home is the underworld of Barcelona. Melchor Marín works for a drug cartel and is arrested during a raid. When he learns in prison about the murder of his mother, he decides to become a police officer after serving his sentence. Years later, Melchor investigates in the stark landscape of Terra Alta, where the scars of the civil war are still visible. The tranquil region is shaken when an elderly couple is brutally murdered. A robbery? An old feud? Or is it the history of the land that has left its mark?.