Marilyn StasioThere's real life in the street scenes, and historical figures like Mayor John F. Hylan, United States Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and the F.B.I. director William J. Flynn figure credibly in the ingeniously plotted investigation conducted by Rubenfeld's fictional detectives…
—The New York Times Book Review
Susannah MeadowsJed Rubenfeld's tremendous follow-up to his 2006 novel, The Interpretation of Murder…bustles with kidnapping, knife throwing, gun fighting, poisoning, bank robbery, corruption. The Death Instinct is that rare combo platter: a blast to read—you'll be counting how few pages you have left with dread, and you'll do this before you're halfway done—and hefty enough to stay with you…This novel is great.
