The strangler - William Landay

Boston, 1963. A city on the 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.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 himand Michael becomes snarled in a murder investigation gone very wrongand Ricky is hunted by both sides of the lawthe 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.