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Compass Rose Press “Involv(ing) no AI sorcery. Instead – get this – the company will partner with staff members at independent bookstores to develop and market one new book per month. As a business model, it’s intriguingly innovative and charmingly old-fashioned” - Writes Ron Charles of the Washington Post - “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. - Says Evan Thomas, author of Robert Kennedy: His Life and Road to War - ★ ★ ★ 
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The Harvard MurdersComing February, 2025It is autumn, 1937... 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... 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. ★ ★ ★ |