Recommended by a friend, I pulled out this book thinking it was just about a murder that happened in Belmont, MA ... it turns out that it is much more than that.
This book ties the local murder in with the Boston strangler murders. It is an in-depth look at the murders and the history of what was happening back in the 1960s in Boston while someone was it seemed indiscriminately murdering the women of Boston. I was fascinated with this subject back when I was in high school, and I found myself still intrigued today also. But as with so many books, I see it from such a different perspective now.
This book sets out the facts as the author was able to gather them and presents this case from his personal experience. From the news reports and court documents he was able to put together in a very suspenseful telling of this story. Sebastian Junger, the author, is a writer who knows how to build the story almost as you would a novel. It keeps the story flowing smoothly and keeps the reader engaged until the end, even if you know the news story before you start reading.
Junger admits that he also thought he knew the outcome of the story when he started the research. He was as surprised as I was a reader that in the end there are still questions and not complete definite answers.
Written in a very readable style, by the excellent author of The Perfect Storm.
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