"Unputdownable...Imagine a sleek, twenty-first century version ofIn Cold Blood." The Washington Post Book World "The mesmerizing true crime tale of an apparently ordinary man whose life mutates in the space of a few blood-splattering hours from the realm of Renoir to that of Stephen King." People "Mesmerizing...a fascinating meditation on Jean-Claude Romand and what his bizarre life might mean." The New York Times Book Review "As a writer, Carregrave;re is straight berserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize the hold he's got on you when you attempt to pull away....You say: True crime and Literature? I don't believe it. I say: Believe it." Junot Diacute;az, author ofDrown

Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendome) Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carregrave;re, whose fiction John Updike described as "stunning" (The New Yorker) explores the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.