The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer - Roseanne Montillo - Books - HarperCollins - 9780062273475 - March 17, 2015
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Roseanne Montillo
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 on the loose in the city?a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire?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, while others never come back.

With the city on edge, authorities believe the abductions are the handiwork of a psychopath, until they discover that their killer?fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy?is barely older than his victims. The criminal investigation that follows sparks a debate among the world?s most revered medical minds, and will have a long-lasting impact on the judicial system and medical consciousness for decades.

The Wilderness of Ruin is a riveting tale of gruesome murder and depravity. At its heart is a great American city divided by class?a chasm that widens in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1872. Roseanne Montillo brings Gilded Age Boston to glorious life?from the genteel cobblestone streets of Beacon Hill to the squalid, overcrowded tenements of Southie. Here, too, is the writer Herman Melville. Enthralled by the child killer?s case, he enlists physician Oliver Wendell Holmes to help him understand how it might relate to his own mental instability. With verve and historical detail, Roseanne Montillo explores this case that reverberated through all of Boston society to help us understand our modern hunger for the prurient and sensational.

320 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released March 17, 2015
ISBN13 9780062273475
Publishers HarperCollins
Pages 320
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   498 g
Language English  

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