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The gripping true crime story that everyone is talking about THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Chilling... mesmerising' FIONA BARTON, author of The Widow It is early morning on 11 January 1993. A house in a small town is burning. By the time firemen arrive at the scene, two children and their mother are dead. Only Jean-Claude Romande - father and husband - survives. But this horrifying event is not an accident. The police soon find out that Jean-Claude murdered his family - and that there are other victims. When Jean-Claude wakes in hospital, there are questions to be answered. Why did he lie about his past for so many years? And what drove him to commit such a brutal, unforgivable act? 'Compelling' Sunday Times 'Unforgettable' Evening Standard 'Disturbing' Daily Express

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It's fascinating, watching Carrere dig around in Romand's inner life... By the end you feel this clever, intriguing book is too good for its banal human subject. -- Robbie Millen * The Times * Dark, strange, astonishing. -- Marcel Theroux * Big Issue *

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Emmanuel Carr re, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary (a Sunday Times bestseller and New York Times Notable Book, translated into twenty-three languages), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life as a Russian Novel, Class Trip, Limonov (winner of the 2011 Prix Renaudot), The Mustache and, most recently, The Kingdom.

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