The child

Defense lawyer Robert Stern is shocked when he sees who the mysterious client is with whom he is to meet on a remote and run-down industrial estate: Simon, a ten-year-old boy, fragile, terminally ill – and firmly convinced that he had been a murderer in a previous life. But Robert Stern’s amazement turns to horror and confusion when he actually finds human remains in the cellar described by Simon: a skeleton, the skull split open with an axe. And this is just the beginning. Not only does Simon tell of other victims executed years ago, but the present soon becomes murderous too …

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