The New York Times – Elyssa East

?Higham and Horwitz have written a remarkably detailed, straight-up expos? of bureaucratic incompetence and human folly, set against the alluring backdrop of Washington?the book sheds new light on this sex scandal turned murder mystery and media circus. It builds suspense through the careful articulation of the things that the police and the media botched, and through the revelation of how various players in the case had a hand in their own undoing. It's an impressive feat of reporting and storytelling, full of the kind of plot elements that seem unbelievable and are made all the more engrossing because they're true.