Inside the Mind of a Killer by Jean-François Abgrall, Profile Books, £8.99, ISBN 1861976569 Reviewed by Laura Spinney
OTHERS have described this book flatteringly as echoing Dostoevsky, but to me Inside the Mind of a Killer has more in common with Albert Camus’s The Outsider, with its murder on a beach, pared-down dialogue, and eyewitnesses (if not perpetrators) blinded by the sun. It’s the gripping tale of the largest serial murder hunt in French history, written by the detective who led it, Jean-François Abgrall. It, too, was a bestseller in France.
