Murder in Greenwich by Mark Furhman. Review

[BStatzer]

A fifteen year old girl from an affluent neighborhood murdered in 1975. From the first page this book can be compared to a great fictional thriller. It has all the components to keep you reading; page after page. Rich socialites , including the Kennedy's, a multitude of suspects but very little answers. On the night before Halloween, fifteen year old Martha was out with friends in the exclusive neighborhood of Bell Haven in Connecticut. Shortly after the group of friends broke for the night to return to their warm homes, someone used a golf club to bludgeon Martha, less than 100 feet from her home. Maybe this would have been an open and shut case in a larger metropolis but Greenwich had had only two documented homicides since the 1940's. The department was under trained and over confident resulting in a mystery that spanned more than 27 years.

Mark Furhman draws the reader to this complex web of suspects, cover ups, and missing evidence and in the end brings you without a doubt to a conclusion.