![]() ![]() But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London’s infamous Jack the Ripper. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. – Jason Lucky MorrowĪ sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer–America’s first–who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885 ![]() Do whatever you got to do to get this book. This book is an experience, not some superficial read. The eBook and print version are priced about what you would expect for a book with a decade of work behind it, but that doesn’t matter. ![]() I read it this weekend and I can tell you that the writing is so exquisite, that it’s like being connected to a virtual reality headset that takes you back to the panic and horror of a serial-killer whose murder spree was more daring than Jack the Ripper–before there even was a Jack the Ripper. Some authors crank out books, some of them write books, and an elite few craft a great book over years of unimaginable diligence and Skip Hollandsworth has produced a new American classic. ![]() This is the best historical true crime book of 2016. ![]()
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