"Pompeo retells the whole sordid business with care and authority, deftly pacing its astonishing developments... Blood & Ink is among 2022’s best works of true crime." — Washington Post
“Blood & Ink is an addictive whodunit and a vivid depiction of a crime that gripped a generation of newspaper readers.” — New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice
"Engrossing . . . Pompeo's book is as much about the rise of tabloid journalism and the American public's appetite for lurid true-life tales as it is about the crime itself." — Wall Street Journal
“Joe Pompeo vividly brings to life all of the color, drama, and intrigue of a century-old murder case that continues to baffle investigators to this day. Set against the backdrop of a form of journalism that would metastasize in the decades that followed, Blood & Ink is a deft piece of investigative reporting and storytelling that refuses to lose its grip on the reader.” — Bryan Burrough, bestselling co-author of Barbarians At the Gate and Forget the Alamo
“A compulsively readable account of a sensational unsolved double murder a century ago . . . Pompeo provides the definitive account of the murders. This is essential reading for true crime buffs.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Pompeo expertly tells the rip-roaring tale of a century-old murder and the ongoing mysteries surrounding the deaths of a minister and his choir-singer lover. Pompeo also shows how the rise of the New York City tabloids kept the scandal alive from one generation to the next. I couldn’t put it down. You won’t be able to either.” — William D. Cohan, bestselling author of House of Cards
“Pompeo brilliantly presents one of the most fascinating cases in the annals of true crime, the Hall-Mills murders. Pompeo investigates a story that fuses religion, betrayal, greed, and adoration, which offers us a complex and tragic portrait of a love story that seemed almost doomed from start.” — Kate Winkler Dawson, author of American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
"A deliciously tawdry, well-told tale . . . [Pompeo's] research is exhaustive, his command of details complete, the narrative fast paced and captivating . . . The result is first-rate historical true crime." — Washington Independent Review of Books