The books of English writer Daphne du Maurier are hugely successful around the world. Du Maurier is not only a master of psychological portraiture, but also a virtuoso of intrigue. As no one else can, she creates an “atmosphere” and keeps the reader in constant tension. No wonder one of her admirers was Alfred Hitchcock, who made films based on Du Maurier’s works—“The Birds” and “Rebecca.”
In the novel “The Scapegoat,” the story concerns events that overturn the lives of the inhabitants of an old French manor. And it all begins when the hero decides to escape the mundanity and problems of his own life. But on the road to freedom he encounters… himself—more precisely, his double. What will this meeting bring, and who will become the “scapegoat”? Readers will have to find out for themselves.