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SEBASTIAN JUNGER discusses A Death in Belmont
Harvard Book Store is pleased to announce that on Thursday, April 20th Sebastian Junger, bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, will discuss his new book A Death in Belmont, an intriguing and original non-fiction crime story set in the Boston suburbs.
In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim’s house that day and left a receipt with his name on the kitchen counter. Smith is hastily convicted of the Belmont murder, but the terror of the Strangler continues.
On the day of the murder, Albert DeSalvo—the man who would eventually confess in lurid detail to the Strangler’s crimes—is also in Belmont, working as a carpenter at the Jungers’ home. In this spare, powerful narrative, Sebastian Junger chronicles three lives that collide—and ultimately are destroyed—in the vortex of one of the first and most controversial serial murder cases in America.
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Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont and Fire. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York City.
Photo Credit: Tim Hetherington
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