PositiveThe Wall Street JournalRiveting ... Simultaneously revels in and criticizes the press’s shameless bravado in shaping the Christie murder investigation ... The author questions our own ambivalent complicity in the \'peepshow\' of true-crime reportage ... Ms. Summerscale’s evocation of Christie’s purse-lipped, self-satisfaction and his bossy, neurotic pride relates British repression to obsession, prudishness to prurience.
