The Harvard Murders
The Harvard Murders

The Harvard Murders

From the Winner of the Michael Shaara and W. Y. Boyd Prizes for Fiction Comes a Riveting New Historical Thriller

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The Harvard Murders

Robert J. Mrazek

American landscape on the brink of war.

It’s the fall of 1937 and real-life Harvard roommates Jimmy Rousmaniere and Jack Kennedy have returned to Cambridge for their sophomore year. At nineteen, Jimmy is a superb athlete who lives for competition and is still innocent in the ways of the world. At twenty, JFK is charismatic, funny, intellectually curious, and already a natural leader. Having had the last rites read over him twice in his childhood, he now lives for the moment.

As the college year unfolds, and a national specter of war looms in the background, an act of hideous cruelty followed by the disappearance of a beautiful young Irish immigrant sets in motion a terrifying nightmare as Jimmy and Jack are forced to confront a predator who might live in their midst.

Robert J. Mrazek is the author of fourteen books, earning the American Library Association’s top honors for military fiction, the Michael Shaara award for Civil War fiction, and the Best Book (American History) from the Washington Post. A former five-term congressman, he wrote numerous pieces of landmark legislation including the Amerasian Homecoming Act that brought 19,000 children fathered by Americans during the Vietnam War to the U.S.