Sebastian Junger May 6, 2006

We are delighted to welcome Sebastian Junger back to Elliott Bay, here (and for the University Bookstore the night preceding) with his much-awaited new book, A Death in Belmont (W.W. Norton). "It has been seven years since Junger wrote the bestselling A Perfect Storm and he again turns his attention to the Bay State with this compelling look back at the Boston Strangler. Italian American carpenter Albert DeSalvo, long considered the modern progenitor of the serial killer, was working in the Junger home on the day an elderly neighborhood woman was raped and strangled. The picture that opens this book, taken the day after the murder to mark the completion of work on Junger's mother's studio, shows one-year-old Junger seated in his mother's lap with DeSalvo standing directly behind them. Using this personal angle as inspiration, Junger goes on to detail the rush to judgment that resulted in the arrest, trial, and incarceration of black cleaning man Roy Smith for the Belmont murder...An intriguing crime story that also contains powerful truths about race and justice in America." - Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist.

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