| Author/Contributor(s): | Junger, Sebastian |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Date: | 4/3/2007 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In the spring of 1963, at the height of hysteria over a serial killer known as the Boston Strangler, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts was rocked by a shocking sex murder. A black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim’s house that day, was arrested and hastily convicted of the crime.
But the terror of the Boston Strangler continued. On the day of the murder, Albert DeSalvo—the man who would eventually confess to the crimes—was in Belmont, working in the home of toddler Sebastian Junger’s parents. In this spare, powerful narrative, the acclaimed author of The Perfect Storm chronicles three lives that tragically overlapped—and ultimately were destroyed—in a single day in a small American town. A tale of race and justice, murder and memory, A Death in Belmont is as compelling as such true crime classics as In Cold Blood, Helter Skelter, and The Executioner’s Song.