A Death in Belmont Audiobook

Quotes

• “Junger adeptly pulls together the various elements of this complex narrative.”

  — Washington Post

• “A Death in Belmont, though nonfiction, reads like a novel. Its narrative line is crips…Read in this manner, it is a worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “The perfect story…It’s difficult to communicate, to those who have only read about it, the atmosphere of fear that gripped Boston during the rampage of the Boston Strangler.”

  — Boston Globe

• “In DeSalvo’s dark world, Junger’s clear, beautifully reasonable writing is the literary equivalent of night-vision goggles…He’s navigating a maze of shadows, and you can see all the more clearly what an enormously skillful prose artist he is…Junger entrances the reader by picking out small details that give the events he’s describing an enthralling vividness and resonance and clarity.”

  — Time

• “[Junger] pieces together a remarkable and disturbing tale about crime and justice in America. You get the sense that this story has been incubating for a long time, and Junger’s painstakingly researched and carefully reported book, with its clear, straightforward prose, has the dramatic power of a great novel…Junger has produced a terrific and provocative book that addresses such subjects as race, crime, our notions of justice, and the mysteries of criminal pathology without ever losing its narrative drive. It would be difficult, in fact, to find a recent American novel that says as much about so many of the important issues of our time, and says it so compellingly.”

  — Minneapolis Star-Tribune

• “[I] couldn’t put it down for four hours…and then did so only because [my] flight had landed.”

  — Newsweek

• “[Junger’s] a hell of a storyteller.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Junger has done a remarkable job recreating the story of the damaged little boy who became a serial killer, and those whose lives he changed…Reading Junger, one cannot help being reminded of Truman Capote’s brilliant reconstruction of another brutal slaying, In Cold Blood, and noting that he stands the test of comparison.”

  — Daily Mail (London)

• “As Junger showed in his bestselling The Perfect Storm, he’s a hell of a storyteller…This perplexing story gains an extra degree of creepiness from Junger’s personal connection to it.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Bestselling author Junger gives us a fresh look at the Boston Strangler crime story by examining his own family lore…Well-documented…Leaves us wanting more.”

  — Library Journal

• “A meticulously researched evocation of a time of terror, wrapped around a chilling, personal footnote.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “An intriguing crime story that also contains painful truths about race and justice in America.”

  — Booklist