The Strangler

From the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob Boston 1963. A city on edge. On street corners newsboys hawk the shocking headline: KENNEDY IS DEAD. In the citys underworld a mob war rages. But what terrifies Bostonians most is the mysterious killer who has already claimed a dozen victims a murderer whose name is indelibly linked to their city: the Boston Strangler. This is the electrifying backdrop of William Landays magnificent new novel a story of one Irish-American family a city under siege and the long shadow cast by the most infamous killer of his day . . . For the three Daley brothers sons of a Boston cop crime is the family business. They are simply on different sides of it. Joe is the eldest a tough-talking cop whose gambling habitsfast women slow horsesdrag him down into the citys gangland. Michael is the middle son; a Harvard-educated lawyer working for an ambitious attorney general he finds himself assigned to the embattled Strangler task force. And Ricky the devil-may-care youngest son floats above the fray as an expert burglaruntil the Strangler strikes too close to home. As Joes mob debts close in around him . . . and Michael becomes snarled in a murder investigation gone very wrong . . . and Ricky is hunted by both sides of the law the three brothersand the women who love themare forced to take sides. Now each must look deeper into a killers murderous rage into their familys own lethal secrets and into the one death that has changed them forever. As William Landays complex compassionate and terrifying novel builds to a climax two mysteries will collideand a shattering truth will be revealed.