Zalkind’s The Waltham Murders is a wildly engaging true crime book about the improbable murders the author is directly connected to growing up in Waltham, Massachusetts… But also, as the story blooms, a surprising connection to a major terrorist event and a statewide manhunt that resulted in one of the perpetrators dead and the other on federal death row, just a few miles from the murders (and from where I am currently writing this).

This was a Kindle First Reads selection I got for free, whi...