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Strangled

Strangled

Strangled
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Strangled Mass market paperback - 2008

by McGrory, Brian

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Pocket Books, 2008. Mass Market Paperback. New. reprint edition. 352 pages. 6.75x4.50x1.00 inches.
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  • Title Strangled
  • Author McGrory, Brian
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 430
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pocket Books
  • Publication date 2008
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0743463692
  • ISBN 9780743463690 / 0743463692
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.82 x 5.98 x 1.21 in (17.32 x 15.19 x 3.07 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Library of Congress subjects Journalists, Suspense fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006048748
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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Deadly and deep-seated political conspiracies are nothing new to Jack Flynn, the popular lead reporter of the Boston Record. But in Strangled, he finds himself in the middle of a case that everyone thought had closed forty years ago -- the Boston Strangler. From the summer of 1962 to the winter of 1964, eleven women were strangled to death in their homes. The city had been panic-stricken. Dog pounds were cleaned out. Locksmiths worked twenty-hour days. The streets emptied after dark. Single women set up phone trees to check on each other's safety. Then, a year after the eleventh murder, the city breathed a heavy sigh of relief when convicted sex offender Albert DeSalvo confessed to the killings. Eight years later, he was stabbed to death in prison, forever ridding the world of the man who had terrorized a city. Or so everyone thought.

Boston, present-day. A series of murders has occurred in which all the victims, all female, have been strangled and left with markers eerily reminiscent of those once left by the "Phantom Fiend" -- garish bows tied around their necks and their bodies ghoulishly positioned to greet investigators as they entered the crime scene.

In typical fashion, the police and local politicians have turned on their publicity machine full-throttle in an attempt to cool any rumors about the possible return of the Strangler. Little do they know that Flynn is receiving letters from the killer himself, thrusting the newsman between the threats of a madman and several secretive, uncooperative officials, who are tied to the original case. With the lives of innocent women on the line, he must use his keen journalistic skills to determine whether or not this is a copycat on the loose, or if Albert DeSalvo was, in fact, not quite the fiend everyone so easily believed him to be. Is it possible that the Boston Strangler was never captured and that he's been lurking in the shadows, waiting to kill again?

Using fiction to examine the horrifying details of the Boston Strangler case and the possible outcomes of its investigation, McGrory has written an intelligent thriller crackling with newsroom energy and chilling suspense.

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