The Wilderness of RuinIn late nineteenth century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the citya wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872in 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,

who helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile

What else can Mick do but destroy the duke’s legitimate son—and woo the heir’s betrothed into his own unloving arms

With gentle anecdotes

Kennedy was shot

has become a font of bitterness

When Isabel’s teacher asks her students who they want to be when they grow up

How does this affect us

outlining their responsibilities as soldiers of the corps

Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four

Erin Morgenstern

to be a cycle of hopelessness and despair

This edition features an updated afterword from Wilder’s nephew