The brutal killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier just days before Christmas in 1996 has proved to be Ireland's highest-profile, most baffling and controversy-stalked murder mystery.

In this definitive account of Ireland's most notorious unsolved crime, Ralph Riegel, who has covered the case from the very beginning, delves into the facts of the murder that caused shockwaves across both Sophie's native France and the quiet Cork countryside where her dream turned into a nightmare.