I found this book profoundly frustrating. The parts of it that interested me — like the Maxwell murders — weren’t explored enough, and the parts that seemed extraneous — like Tom Radney’s life story, or the history of insurance — were explored too much. As a result, some of it held my interest and much of it did not.

I’m glad I read it, and I learned a lot about Harper Lee and Truman Capote that I didn’t know before, but overall I didn’t feel like this lived up to the hype.