Jean Claude Romand seemed a model citizen: he was a diligent and successful doctor who worked at the World Health Organisation; his wife’s parents even trusted him enough to invest their life savings for them. In reality, however, he had no degree, no job, and had been financing his lifestyle with his in-laws’ money. In what the Evening Standard described as ‘an absolutely stunning piece of work, totally involving and unforgettable’, Emmanuel Carrère describes how Romand began as a compulsive liar and ended up a murderer.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | Paperback 224 pp. |ISBN: 9780747554172