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Atria
February 2007
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Featuring: Jack Flynn
352 pages
ISBN: 0743463684
EAN: 9780742463683
Hardcover
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Thriller Psychological | Suspense | Thriller Police Procedural
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?
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