Inside “The Strangler”

Oct. 14, 2009

Inside “The Strangler”: Angiulo, Barboza and fictionalizing the Mob

Two notorious Boston crime figures, Gerry Angiulo and Joe Barboza, are reanimated in The Strangler.

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Sep. 8, 2009

Inside “The Strangler”: The New Boston, 1963

One of the frustrations in writing a historical novel like The Strangler is that so much of your research never sees the light of day. When the book is done, all those index cards so lovingly compiled get wrapped up in a rubber band and tossed into a drawer, and the reader is left to [...]

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