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·Awarded honors in nonfiction by the Massachusetts Book Award.
·A riveting true story of murder, captivity, revenge, and escape
Told with narrative skill and exquisite historical detail Massacre on the Merrimack examines a dark period in America’s past and the bloody deeds of Hannah Duston, who escaped her Native American captors and returned to her settlement of Haverhill, Massachusetts, with a collection of scalps.

Jay Atkinson is the author of eight books. He has written for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, Men’s Health, and Boston Globe magazine. He lives in Methuen, Massachusetts.