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Published by Anagrama · Biography and literary studies · ISBN 9788433977151

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A non-fiction account of a real case. In January 1993 the Frenchman Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children and his parents; the investigation found that he was not a doctor, as everyone believed, and that he had been lying since the age of eighteen. Carrère got in touch with him, attended the trial and tries to imagine his empty days, when he claimed to be at work and drifted through car parks and the forests of the Jura.

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For readers of narrative non-fiction and true crime more interested in a person's mind than in suspense. The publisher sets it beside Capote's In Cold Blood. It is short, but the subject is very harsh.

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