"Gripping. an exceptionally thorough examination'" -- Daily Mail "Sensational. the most minutely researched and brilliantly told account ever'" -- Mail on Sunday "Tantalises with fresh evidence" -- The Daily Telegraph "A compelling new examination of the crime and a brilliant detective mind. fascinating. Thompson gives us a tantalising range of alternative scenarios in this superb anatomy of a murder'" -- Independent "This gripping read is part social history, part detective story. fascinating'" -- Bella "Thompson delivers the goods: a compelling narrative, hypotheses based on evidence and a possible solution. But she goes further, putting the murder in the telling context of British aristocracy and social attitudes towards it" -- The Times "Thompson is a fine writer and one can't help admiring the way she breathes new life into an intriguing tale" -- Literary Review "[Laura Thompson] gets her teeth into the case, drawing on Lucan's friends the Shand-Kydds, finding a new source in an anonymous Lucan schoolfriend, and finally producing a narrative which is sympathetic to Lucan, but less so to his wife" -- TLS "Thompson re-examines a tantalizingly ambiguous crime, delving deep into a complicated story and emerging with a gripping narrative that offers a fresh perspective and new solutions to one of the most infamous cases of the 20th century" -- Good Book Guide. "Thompson approaches the mystery with forensic skill, [reaching] a suitably enigmatic conclusion" -- Daily Mail.