Turning the Page:“The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America” by Erik Larson

Genre: Historical Non-fiction My rating: 4/5 Synopsis: Erik Larson weaves the whimsical and the macabre into the story of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Ill., and the sinister serial killer who preyed on its visitors in "The Devil in the White City." The tale follows Daniel Hudson Burnham – the brilliant architect who helped orchestrate the construction of Chicago's first World's Fair, and Herman Webster Mudgett – better known today as America's first serial killer, Dr. H. H. Holmes. While Burnham focuses his efforts on rallying support in proving Chicago was the best choice for the Fair (and while trying to find an engineer who could "out Eiffel, Eiffel"), Holmes be