'On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claud Roman was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting ... ' With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.

'On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claud Roman was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting ... ' With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.