By William Landay
Before the New York Times bestselling luck of Defending Jacob, William Landay wrote this broadly acclaimed moment novel of crime and suspense, which was once named a favourite Crime Novel of the yr by way of the Los Angeles Times and a number of other newspapers.
Boston, 1963. Meet the fascinating, brawling Daley brothers. Joe is a cop whose playing conduct have dragged him down into the city’s underworld. Michael is a attorney, regularly the neatest guy within the room. And Ricky is the youngest son, a prince of thieves whose most up-to-date heist will be his final. For the Daleys, crime is the relations business—they’re easily on assorted aspects of it. Then a killer, a guy who hunts girls with brutal potency and no signal of preventing, moves too as regards to the Daley domestic. The brothers unite to discover the Strangler, a trip that ends up in the darkest corners of Boston—and exposes a fair deeper secret that threatens to rip the relations apart.
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“Reminiscent of Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, the radical takes us right into a darkish global the place goodness is smothered and villainy flourishes. . . . i used to be thoroughly riveted.”—The Boston Globe
“A dense and gratifying novel of crime and retribution . . . [Landay has] been touted because the typical successor to George V. Higgins.”—The Independent
“A gripping, atmospheric saga.”—The Wall highway Journal
“An outstanding and pleasing performance.”—The Washington Post
“Smart and surprising.”—Esquire
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