*Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this free ARC in exchange for an honest review. Pub date: July 22, 2025

A quick read about a woman murdered by her husband, whose memory was also murdered by her him in the aftermath of her death as he spun the narrative and cried victim. Men with powerful social and financial capital can quite literally get away with the murder of women, and this book touches on how easy and common it is.

Unfortunately this falls prey to some of its own critique, and focuses too much on the killer and not the victim.

One hopes for the impossible in reading this book: to see Hélène Legotien clearly, as a full human being. There are glimpses of her but the focus is still very much on her murderer. Perhaps this is to be expected in a work that is committed to critiquing the widespread and intellectually lazy acceptance of Althusser as an innocent madman. I found myself tripping over multiple instances of confusing or non-idiomatic syntax and expect that these will be smoothed out in the final copyediting.