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The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide

Dick Lehr
Harper Collins (2009)
ISBN 9780060780982
Reviewed by Kam Auresfor RebeccasReads (07/09)

“The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide” is authored by Dick Lehr “who was a reporter for the Boston Globe for nearly two decades, where he won numerous journalism awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.”  Therefore, it is not surprising that this true crime book that tells the tale of a police cover-up is a high-quality piece of work.

The author included a couple of helpful tools in the beginning of the book.  The first is a map of the neighborhoods with markings of where all of the incidents took place.  Lehr also has a list of all of the characters in the book along with a brief description of who they are.  I referred to this list often while reading the book just to refresh my memory as there were so many people involved in the crimes that it was hard to keep track of everyone.

I was not familiar with the Boston incident so the story presented was new to me.  I found the events that occurred to be shocking and disturbing.  Lehr did an excellent job of presenting the facts in the case and drawing information from interviews to compile this complete and concise work.  As I did not know of the events prior to reading the book, I became completely engrossed in Lehr’s writing to find out what was going to happen and found the book to be a very hard one to put down.  “The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide” is one of the better true crime books that I have read in awhile.

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