Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

by Lisa Belkin

Book Overview

Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The suspect, still at large, is described by police as a "loner" and a "pro." But on a beach not too far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces the chilling realization that the shooter had help. It was the doctor himself who inadvertently set the murder into motion.

Alvin Tarlov, David Troy, and Joseph DeSalvo were all born of the Great Depression, all with grandparents who'd left different homelands for the same American Dream. How did one become a doctor, one a cop, and one a convict? Journalist Lisa Belkin traces the paths of each of these three men--one of them her stepfather. She examines the coincidences and choices that led to one fateful night, and illuminates how we shape history even as we are shaped by it.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393285251
• ISBN13: 9780393285253
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"