Roseanne Montillo. Morrow, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-202581-4
Montillo’s debut, a macabre romp through 18th and 19th century Europe, illuminates the circumstances and inspiration behind one of gothic literature’s most notorious tales. Walking a fine line between historical fact and logical conjecture, the book
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Roseanne Montillo. Morrow, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-227347-5
Delving deep into the history of Boston circa the 19th century, Montillo (The Lady and Her Monsters) unearths a riveting true-crime tale that rivals anything writers in the 21st century could concoct. Jesse Harding Pomeroy, an adolescent from a...
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Roseanne Montillo. Crown, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-101-90615-6
Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Montillo (The Wilderness of Ruin) traces the fascinating story of Betty Robinson, an Olympic-track-and-field trailblazer. Montillo is a brilliant storyteller who introduces Robinson in 1931, as she is...
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Roseanne Montillo. Little, Brown, $18.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-48959-1
On a July morning in 1945, Joan Hinton saw a world-changing explosion: “It was like being at the bottom of an ocean of light.” Hinton, a physicist, was one of the many women scientists integral to the development of the atomic bomb whose stories...
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Roseanne Montillo. Atria, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-9821-5373-1
In this engrossing account, research librarian Montillo (Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb) recreates a tragic cause célèbre. On November 15, 1955, Billy Woodward was shot to death in his Long...
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