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Good evening. An immersive account of a seemingly loving father's transformation into a family annihilator.

In March, 2003, Alex Murdoch was found guilty of murdering his wife and younger son at

Moselle, their home in South Carolina's low country. By then, the story had become headline

news across the country, with its revelations of corruption in high places, massive fraud, opioid

abuse, fake suicides, suspicious

accidents, and the generational recklessness of the wealthy legal dynasty at its center.

Having covered the case for the New Yorker, where his article became the magazine's most

read story of the year,

the acclaimed novelist James Lazzden

brings his long-standing interest in the darker drives of the human psyche

to an investigation into the serial embezzlement's fatal boat crash

and other events leading up to the slaughter at Moselle.

Justice may have been served, Lazzan writes, in the preface to the family man,

but the human element of the story didn't seem to add up.

Having traveled extensively in the low country, Lasden draws on original interviews, including with Murdoch's notorious cousin Eddie,

transcripts of phone calls Murdoch made from prison,

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