Ritratto di un assassino

Synopsis of Ritratto di un assassino

In 'Portrait of a Killer', Patricia Cornwell, with her deep interest in the case of Jack the Ripper, the serial killer who brutally murdered five women in the fog of Victorian London in 1888, reconstructs the morbid psychology of a criminal mind and gives a name and face to the culprit. According to Cornwell, the culprit would be the impressionist painter Walter Sickert, whom she brings back to life to answer for his crimes, proof after proof. The book tells of an investigation that lasted years and reads like a novel.