Disquieting ... Mr. Cohen is a discerning guide through a chain of events that unfold with the numbing inevitability of a bad movie ... Mr. Cohen steadies the grim churn of events with tact and underlying moral revulsion ... Mr. Cohen’s gifts as a storyteller are ample.
Cohen has constructed a meticulous true-crime tale that focuses on the victim, not the perpetrator ... Cohen writes of this period with substantial empathy, softening the glare of her extraordinary privilege.
While the level of detail is impressive, Cohen struggles to explain why the Dulos case is particularly noteworthy. This tragedy is flattened, and it’s hard to tell what, if anything, it’s meant to illuminate about the world.
