“In Murder in the Dollhouse, Rich Cohen takes us beyond the tabloid headlines of the Jennifer Dulos story to chronicle—in devastating detail—the tragic unraveling of a marriage and the shattering of the American Dream. With brilliant, razor sharp writing and deep reporting of the case, he proves to be the perfect narrator as we witness two lives barreling toward an inevitable collision course. This is a story about the choices we make and the tragic consequences those choices can have.” —Katie Couric

“This heartbreaking and haunting story reads like a psychological thriller, but the cast of characters are all too real. There can be no justice for Jennifer Dulos or those who loved her, but this book will stand as something close: written with elegance and clarity, impeccably reported, and filled with genuine heart, we come to know this bright light of a woman whose charmed life turned into the worst kind of nightmare.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Signal Fires

“What Truman Capote did for Holcomb, Kansas, with In Cold Blood, Rich Cohen has done for New Canaan, Connecticut, with Murder in the Dollhouse. This book isn’t just true crime, it’s sociology in action. The story of Jennifer Dulos, a woman with seemingly everything going for her—beauty, money, talent—is the story of the American dream turned into a nightmare. A thrilling read.” —Lili Anolik, author of Didion and Babitz

“With Murder in the Dollhouse, Rich Cohen takes what might be dismissed as a story of tabloid murder and mines it for its deeper, weightier resonances, revealing a painfully human (and perhaps quintessentially American) story of a Kafkaesque divorce, its ripple effects on family and friends and the destructive power of relentless aspiration.” —Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Beware the Woman

“I first read the story of Jennifer and Fotis Dulos in the newspaper in 2019, and then again hungrily in Rich Cohen's smartly observed series for Air Mail. I assumed this book would be his earlier reporting with a forward and an epilogue. But the detail and depth left me breathless. Set in a world I know well—the cosseted and manicured bubble of Fairfield County, CT, Cohen contrasts the extreme elegance against the grit of a heinous crime. Jennifer Farber was the tragically misdirected woman who had everything going for her—on the surface. Red flags flapping in a windstorm didn't alert her to the mess that would be her marriage to Fotis Dulos. And Dulos—even when home on bail in his court-ordered ankle bracelet—had yet another romance with a woman of means. Cohen has done a fantastic reporting job. It's the details that will make you gasp.” —Lisa Birnbach, author of The Preppy Handbook and 20 other books