The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County will host a non-fiction book discussion on Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.

This book reads like an novel, but it is actually an unlikely history of the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

In it, the author tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair’s construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor and hotel operator. Larson brings to life the best and worst aspects of 19th-century Chicago.

Read it (or re-read it) and come talk about it.

We already booked you a room.

Copies of the books are available for sale at your favorite bookseller and are free to borrow from the Library’s Circulation Desk.