Blood Relation

In this true crime memoir, a New Yorker writer investigates the life and career of his hit-man great-uncle and the impact he had on his family.

"Absorbing and marvelously told [in] graceful, perfectly pitched prose. . . . A mesmerizing expedition." —New York Times Book Review

Growing up in a household that seemed "as generic as midwestern Jews gets," Eric Konigsberg never imagined there was anything remotely mysterious about his family—until he learned from an ex-cop groundskeeper that his gr...