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The Strangler

by William Landay
Stephen Hoye
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For the three Daley brothers, sons of a Boston cop, crime is the family business. They are simply on different sides of it. Joe is the eldest, a tough-talking cop whose gambling habits–fast women, slow horses–drag him down into the city’s gangland. Michael is the middle son; a Harvard-educated lawyer working for an ambitious attorney general, he finds himself assigned to the embattled Strangler task force. And Ricky, the devil-may-care youngest son, floats above the fray as an expert burglar–until the Strangler strikes too close to home and the three brothers–and the women who love them–are forced to take sides. Now each must look deeper into a killer’s murderous rage, into their family’s own lethal secrets, and into the one death that has changed them forever.

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  • Release date

    January 23, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415937204
      • File size: 395628 KB
      • Duration: 13:44:13

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This family saga chronicles the Daley family, whose three brothers represent different sides of the law. The lives of a lawyer, a thief, and a corrupt cop are intertwined by kinship and crime. Stephen Hoye carries the detailed and ever-present dialogue well. He nails the Boston accent, and, from crime boss to widowed mom, each character is portrayed in his or her own voice. Although the setting is predominant, Hoye's pacing moves the novel's plot along. Boston's political landscape of the 1960s is woven into the narrative, and the social commentary is apparent. Using the case of the Boston Strangler as the focal point and the JFK assassination as a backdrop, this story is a convolution of greed, family ties, and revenge. D.L.M. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 20, 2006
      Set in Boston in 1963, Landay's engrossing crime novel is less about the titular strangler than the three Irish-American Daley brothers: Ricky, a thief; Michael, a lawyer; and Joe, a bent cop. A year earlier, the Daleys' father, also a cop, was fatally shot on the job, and the killer has never been caught. The father's partner on the force, Brendan Conroy, has insinuated himself into the family to the point that he's now sleeping with the brothers' mother, Margaret, and is a permanent fixture at Sunday dinner, much to the disgust of Michael and Ricky. Landay (Mission Flats
      ) movingly explores the bonds of family and basic questions of honesty and loyalty. While the novel suggests another killer than the historical Boston Strangler, the emphasis remains on such themes as crime and punishment, love and honor, truth and justice.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Set in the early 1960s, this audiobook recounts the search for the Boston Strangler by focusing on three tangential characters, the Daley brothers. One brother is a cop on the take, one is a lawyer, and the third is a thief and gambler. All are dragged into the web of the serial killer. Stephen Hoye narrates in a subtle Boston accent. But abrupt changes of venue and character as the story progresses make the novel's scenes seem clipped. The abridgment's focus on the brothers as opposed to the Strangler takes away the listener's attention, and Hoye's slow pacing reflects a lack of tension. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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