Sarah's review
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
So this book interested me after reading In Cold Blood, but this book was definitely lacking something. Sebastian Junger met Albert DeSalvo (when Junger was a young boy) while DeSalvo was working on their house (in Belmont, MA) in the midst of the Boston Strangler murders. Junger illustrates his childhood and mother's experiences with DeSalvo, how life was like in Boston (and the nation) experiencing the murders, racism, and the death of JFK, and finally the life of Roy Smith and DeSalvo. Roy Smith was arrested, tried, and convicted for one of the murders basically because he was a black man who had cleaned the victim's home and then was seen in the all-white town that very afternoon after she was murdered.
I found the book interesting because I have grown up hearing about the Boston Strangler and of course grown up near Belmont, etc. This book was boring at times and just not as engaging or thrilling as Capote's account of a real murder. Capote's book seemed like an excellent novel...more
I found the book interesting because I have grown up hearing about the Boston Strangler and of course grown up near Belmont, etc. This book was boring at times and just not as engaging or thrilling as Capote's account of a real murder. Capote's book seemed like an excellent novel...more
