The Strangler
  • Published:
    Feb-2007 (Hardcover)
    Dec-2007 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    Suspense
  • Pages:
    416
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Boston, 1963. A city on edge. On street corners, newsboys hawk the shocking headline: KENNEDY IS DEAD. In the city's 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 Landay's 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 habits--fast women, slow horses--drag him down into the city's 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 burglar--until the Strangler strikes too close to home.

As Joe's 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 brothers--and the women who love them--are forced to take sides. Now each must look deeper into a killer's murderous rage, into their family's own lethal secrets, and into the one death that has changed them forever. As William Landay's complex, compassionate, and terrifying novel builds to a climax, two mysteries will collide--and a shattering truth will be revealed.
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    •  
    • Jan-2008
    • Bantam
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0440237378
    • ISBN13: 9780440237372
    •  
    • Jun-2012
    • Bantam
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 034553946X
    • ISBN13: 9780345539465
    • First Edition
    • Feb-2007
    • Delacorte
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0385336152
    • ISBN13: 9780385336154
    •  
    • 2007
    • Bantam (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0593049357
    • ISBN13: 9780593049358
    •  
    • Feb-2007
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0440336627
    • ISBN13: 9780440336624
    •  
    • Nov-2009
    • Transworld (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1409083659
    • ISBN13: 9781409083658
    •  
    • May-2006
    • Random House Audio
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0739307932
    • ISBN13: 9780739307939
    •  
    • Sep-2006
    • Random House Audio
    • Audio CD (abridged)
    • ISBN: 0739307940
    • ISBN13: 9780739307946
    •  
    • Jan-2007
    • Random House Audio
    • audible.com (abridged)
    •  
    • Jan-2007
    • Books on Tape
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1415931380
    • ISBN13: 9781415931387
    •  
    • Jan-2007
    • Random House Audio
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jan-2007
    • Random House Large Print
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0739327097
    • ISBN13: 9780739327098
    • Large Print



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