The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
An exhaustive tale of what went into the making of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, interwoven with the disturbing activities of one Mr. H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett), who was a fraudster and mass murderer that used the events of the Expo to help facilitate his activities. I enjoyed Larson's dynamic style, though I admit I did start to skim over some of the details leading up to the Expo, since the minutiae were a bit too much for me. I'd never heard of H. Holmes, and Larson did a good job conveying how creepy and deadly the guy was.
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