The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer

by Roseanne Montillo

Book Overview

A captivating tale of depravity in the Athens of America. --Mitchell Zuckoff, author of the New York Times bestsellers Lost in Shangri-La and Frozen in Time

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062273477
• ISBN13: 9780062273475
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"