num_pages: 7
description: In 1963, suburban Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a sex murder that fits the Boston Strangler s pattern. The police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim s house. Smith is hastily convicted, but the terror of the Strangler continues. But on the day of the Belmont murder, Albert DeSalvo the man who eventually confessed to the Strangler s crimes is also in town, working as a carpenter at the Jungers home. In this powerful narrative, Sebastian Junger chronicles one of America s first and most controversial serial murder cases."
language: English
title: A Death in Belmont
titlecomplete: A Death in Belmont
genres: Mystery, Thriller, Biography, True Crime, History, Crime, Nonfiction, Adult, Memoir, Audiobook
ratings_count: 5600
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: ALCS Dagger for Non-fiction
publisher: Audiogo