Erik Larson is a prize-winning journalist and No.1 bestselling author of Isaac's Storm, The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck, In the Garden of Beasts and in 2015, Dead Wake - about the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. He lives in Seattle with his family.

"Fuses history and entertainment to give the dramatic effect of a novel... this truth really is stranger than fiction" The New York Times "Erik Larson tracks [H H Holmes] with practised journalistic skill... Highly readable" Sunday Telegraph "Captures the spirit of an America bursting with pioneering drive... a gripping book" Independent on Sunday "Bursting with so much vitality you half expect it to jump right out of your hands" Yorkshire Evening Post "An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction" Time Out

Erik Larson is a prize-winning journalist and No.1 bestselling author of Isaac's Storm, The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck, In the Garden of Beasts and in 2015, Dead Wake - about the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. He lives in Seattle with his family.

"Fuses history and entertainment to give the dramatic effect of a novel... this truth really is stranger than fiction" The New York Times "Erik Larson tracks [H H Holmes] with practised journalistic skill... Highly readable" Sunday Telegraph "Captures the spirit of an America bursting with pioneering drive... a gripping book" Independent on Sunday "Bursting with so much vitality you half expect it to jump right out of your hands" Yorkshire Evening Post "An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction" Time Out