The Wilderness of Ruin
A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer

He pointed out that “a strong lack of conscience” is one of the hallmarks for these individuals. “Their game is self-gratification at the other person’s experience,” Hare said. “Psychopathic killers, however, are not mad, according to accepted legal and psychiatric standards. The acts result not fr......more

I had high hopes for this one, but I have to follow so many others with my review... NOT GOOD! This really was more about Boston's shady history, than about the youngest serial killer in the US. I was more interested in his story, which we did get a little bit of, but not enough to warrant a whole b......more

The book is written well (at the sentence level, and it's interesting enough. You can also clearly tell the author has read (and digested) every book Erik Larson wrote. The issue with the book is not necessarily that it can't figure out what it is (or what story it's trying to tell); rather, the iss......more

Wilderness of Ruin by Roseanne Montillo ***I received a digital ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for a fair, honest review, all opinions expressed are my own*** Boston in the late nineteenth- century, the streets are haunted by the shadow of the ‘red devil’ a malevolent entity that prey......more

Yes Good writing but too dry. More a history book than true crime. I started to read this April 9 and read the first half of the book then picked another book to read. Started reading again. To be honest I had already hard about Jesse Pomeroy. The youngest serial killer so because he was so infamous I......more