Author
Erik Larson
We've read and reviewed Erik Larson's true crime and history book The Devil in the White City on Book of the Day, scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
Erik Larson braids two Chicago stories from 1893. Daniel Burnham races to build the World's Columbian Exposition out of a lakefront swamp, and a few miles south H. H. Holmes murders young women inside a building he designed for the purpose. Rigorous history that moves with the pull of a thriller.