When 21 shots from a semi-automatic pistol rang out across the picturesque Alpine woodland high above Lake Annecy, there was nobody nearby to raise the alarm. In a car, in a secluded lay-by off a quiet single-lane track, were the bloodied bodies of British computer engineer, Saad al-Hilli, his wife, Iqbal, and her mother, Suhaila. Nearby lay the corpse of French cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, punctured by five shots from the same gun. Saad’s eldest daughter, Zainab, seven, had been shot, pistol-whipped and left for dead. Cowering underneath her mum’s skirt in the back seat of the car was Zainab’s little sister, Zeena - the only one of the six people there left unharmed. Was this a professional assassin’s error, or a humane gesture by someone who knew the girls? Was the murderer hired to take out Saad and his family? Was he a Mossad agent under orders to assassinate an Israeli enemy? Or were the al-Hillis just holidaymakers in the wrong place at the wrong time when Mollier was the real target? Award-winning Daily Mirror reporter, Tom Parry, covered the story from day one. In ‘The Perfect Crime’ Parry returns to the case that has left the French police baffled. He re-examines the evidence, follows all the lines of enquiry and explores many conflicting theories to reach his own chilling conclusions about why the al-Hillis were so brutally murdered and who was responsible. With exclusive never-before-published interviews with Zaid al-Hilli, Prosecutor Eric Maillaud and close relatives and friends of the al-Hilli family, this is the definitive and must-read account of ‘The Perfect Crime’.