If you love true crime, you've probably read this by now; if you haven't read it, you should. Erik Larson is a terrific writer and from the first book of his I read, Isaac's Storm, about the devastating Galveston hurricane at the turn of the last century, I was hooked. I haven't read his most recent book, Dead Wake, about the crossing of the Lusitania, but ... it's on my TBR list.
Here's my review of The Devil in the White City, still Larson's most famous work:
The true story of two great events that occurred simultaneously in
Chicago—the extravagant World’s Fair honoring the 400th anniversary
of the discovery of America; and a series of heinous murders.
This is a tremendously entertaining book for fans of 19th
century architecture, the city of Chicago, and true crime. Larson has taken on a couple of interesting
stories and interwoven them in a way that’s not quite totally successful, but
which always engages us. His non-fiction prose style is so graceful that it’s a
pure pleasure to read.
