The Harvard Murders - by Robert J Mrazek

About the Book

It's the fall of 1937 and real life Harvard roommates Jimmy Rousmaniere and Jack Kennedy have returned to Cambridge. The disappearance of a beautiful young Irish immigrant forces the young men to confront a predator in their midst.

Book Synopsis

Award-winning author Robert J. Mrazek takes us from Harvard Yard to the brothels of South Boston and to the Kennedy mansions in Hyannis Port and Palm Beach in this vivid re-creation of an 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.

Review Quotes

"Bob Mrazek has written a thrilling tale of intrigue and murder at Harvard on the eve of World War II. You will be riveted and moved by a love story gone wrong and the role played by young John F. Kennedy-yes, that JFK, fictionalized but real and deftly drawn by the talented Mr. Mrazek."

Evan Thomas, author of Robert Kennedy: His Life and Road to War.

A page-turning thriller that evokes a bygone world on the verge of World War II, when young John F. Kennedy and his friends at Harvard are full of youthful "vim and vigor" and only just beginning to learn what tragedy means.

Nina Barrett

Owner, Bookends & Beginnings