You have to wonder if, when Jed Rubenfeld, author of the 2006 best seller Interpretation of Murder, contemplated the release of his next book, he imagined that he would be doing interviews for another role, as husband of “Tiger Mom” Amy Chua.

Reviews are also coming in for Rubenfeld’s second novel, The Death Instinct, a mystery based on a real story. Today’s New York Times calls it a “tremendous follow-up” to his previous book. Earlier, Carol Memmott in USA Today, called it “brilliantly concocted and more than just a little eerie. The fictional and actual events surrounding the 1920 bombing are as relevant today as they were nearly a century ago.”

The Death Instinct Jed Rubenfeld Retail Price: $26.95 Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover – (2011-01-20) ISBN / EAN: 1594487820 / 9781594487828

Thorndike Large Print; ISBN 13: 9781410435620; $31.99

Audio: Books on Tape; 14 CDs; 9780307913883; $40

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