Emily Woo Zeller
1) The wilderness of ruin: a tale of madness, fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer
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In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the city-a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872-in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of The Devil in the White City.
In the early 1870s, local children begin disappearing from the working-class neighborhoods of Boston. Several return home bloody and bruised after being tortured,...
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