La historia del loco

Synopsis of La historia del loco

«La historia del loco» is the psychological thriller novel by John Katzenbach, published by Ediciones B in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).

The narrator is Francis Xavier Petrel, a former psychiatric patient who depends on medication to silence the voices he hears. Twenty years after the closure of Western State Hospital, Francis returns to the place and recalls the events surrounding the closure of the facility and the unsolved murder of a young nurse.

Original title: The Madman's Tale. Translated from English by Laura Paredes. Special edition. Nominated for the Hammett Prize (2004) and the Anthony Award (2005).

For readers of psychological suspense and crime fiction; John Katzenbach also wrote The Analyst.