Author and filmmaker Susan Zalkind presents a lecture and reading from her debut book, The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit To Expose The Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy.

In September 2011, Zalkind’s friend, Erik Weissman and two others were murdered in a brutal triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts. The case went unsolved for months and then years, with no discernible leads. Zalkind, an investigative journalist, needed answers and knew that finding it would be up to her. As she began digging, and as the Boston Marathon bombing exposed startling new leads, the case led her down a tangled and sometimes dangerous path to the truth.

Susan Zalkind is a journalist, writer, producer and New Englander. Her work has appeared in This American Life, the Guardian, CityLab, VICE, the Daily Beast, The Irish Times, and Boston magazine. She also wrote and produced the 2022 Hulu docuseries The Murders Before the Marathon, named one of the best shows of the year by The Wall Street Journal. She likes to swim in the ocean. She is a former member of Salem Writers Group that meets at the Salem Athenaeum.