Author Event with Casey Sherman

844 Elm Street,Manchester NH 03101

14 August, 2022

Description

Author, journalist, screenwriter, and Massachusetts native Casey Sherman will be here to talk about his new true crime book, "Helltown." About Helltown: The untold true story of the serial killer who terrorized Cape Cod and captivated a nation. In the winter of 1969, the bodies of four young women were discovered in a cemetery near the tip of Cape Cod. In a place once known as Helltown, the victims had been shot, stabbed, dismembered, and mutilated. As investigators would soon learn, the perpetrator was a young, handsome, serial killer named Tony Costa. A bizarre former taxidermist with a split personality and penchant for violence, Costa ultimately mobilized friends in the hippie community for support and retribution and captivated literary icons and rivals Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer. Costa embarked on a daring cat-and-mouse game with investigators, who—as the body count kept growing—were desperate to put an end to the killing season on Cape Cod. About our author: Casey Sherman is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author of seven books: THE FINEST HOURS, BOSTON STRONG, ANIMAL, A ROSE FOR MARY, BAD BLOOD, BLACK IRISH and BLACK DRAGON. Both THE FINEST HOURS and BOSTON STRONG have been made into major motion pictures. He received the Edward R. Murrow Award for Journalistic Excellence as a member of the CBS Boston news team, and has been nominated for an Emmy Award. A featured guest on major television networks and news programs, Sherman has lectured at the National Press Club and the US Coast Guard Command Center in Washington, DC. He lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts.