The Strangler
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Publisher Description
Boston, 1963. A city on the edge. The Boston Strangler has already claimed a dozen victims.
For the three Daley brothers, crime is very much the family business but the Strangler's murderous spree is about to bring violent death a lot closer to home:
Joe - tough-talking cop whose gambling habits - fast women, slow horses - drag him down into the city's gangland.
Michael - Harvard-educated lawyer, tasked to bring the Strangler to justice.
Ricky - expert burglar and the devil-may-care youngest son who is used to leading a charmed life.
When the Strangler strikes, they will all be forced to look into their family's own lethal secrets and the one death in the past that has changed them forever...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in Boston in 1963, Landay's engrossing crime novel is less about the titular strangler than the three Irish-American Daley brothers: Ricky, a thief; Michael, a lawyer; and Joe, a bent cop. A year earlier, the Daleys' father, also a cop, was fatally shot on the job, and the killer has never been caught. The father's partner on the force, Brendan Conroy, has insinuated himself into the family to the point that he's now sleeping with the brothers' mother, Margaret, and is a permanent fixture at Sunday dinner, much to the disgust of Michael and Ricky. Landay (Mission Flats) movingly explores the bonds of family and basic questions of honesty and loyalty. While the novel suggests another killer than the historical Boston Strangler, the emphasis remains on such themes as crime and punishment, love and honor, truth and justice.
