... excellent.

... fascinating.

... engrossing.

... deeply absorbing.

Dean Jobb...includes a good walkthrough of Victorian-era murder mysteries, how well Cream’s true-crime story fit that genre, and thus how his trial became a media sensation.

... fascinating.

Jobb writes clean, efficient sentences and re-creates Cream’s heartless life in short, highly dramatic chapters. Though subtitled The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer, his book could be described more accurately as Scotland Yard’s quest for the evidence that would convict the one man they suspected all along..

Jobb...does a masterful job of following the investigation, which ranged from England to the United States to Canada, and of presenting Dr. Cream not merely as a murderer, but as a complex, unstable, and deeply fascinating individual. True crime doesn’t get any better than this..

Jobb...provides the definitive account of serial poisoner Thomas Neill Cream in this enthralling real-life thriller.

A lively account.