The Betrayal of Anne Frank A Cold Case Investigation

"Intermittently gripping . . . meticulous . . . the book is most engrossing as a portrait of wartime Amsterdam, a city of conflicting and cross-cutting loyalties, where personal peril could erase the line between heroism and villainy. . . . Sullivan's dissection of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam's labyrinthine ethical byways-and how genocidal war produced moral rot-may be a greater contribution than the true-crime story that inspired the project." - Boston Globe

"A deep dive into life in the Netherlands in the grotesque and difficult year that was 1944. It describes the lives of occupiers and occupied, of perpetrators and victims, of collaborators and those who looked away. For this alone, Sullivan has made a significant contribution." - AirMail

"Sullivan's narrative, full of twists and turns and dead-end leads, commands attention at every page, dramatic without being sensational." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation....Sullivan circles all of these possibilities like Agatha Christie with Zoom and a time machine." - New York Times

"The Betrayal of Anne Frank is a stunning piece of historical detective work, cleverly structured and grippingly written." - Telegraph (UK)

"Powerfully illuminates what it was like to live under a genocidal regime. . . . A compelling picture of what it was like to live in Amsterdam under Nazi occupation: here is a collection of increasingly isolated individuals, hungry, terrified and daily faced with impossible choices about whether to save themselves, their loved ones, or the nice family that lives next door. And it is this moral vacuum that follows in the wake of antisemitism, rather than any particular 'perp', that betrayed Anne Frank." - Guardian