The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial Killer

The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial Killer

<p><b>Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. Collins Award</b><br><b></b><br><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b><br><b></b><b></b><br><b>One of <i>Book Riot</i> Best Book of the Year</b><br><b></b><br>In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any fiction.</p><p>In the late 1800s, just as Austin was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis, a series of brutal murders rocked the burgeoning city and shook it to its core. At the time, the concept of a serial killer was unknown and unimaginable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens’ panic reached a fever pitch.</p><p>For more than a decade, <i>Texas Monthly</i> journalist Skip Hollandsworth has researched this gripping tale of murder and madness that plays out like a well-crafted whodunit. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Hollandsworth's <i>The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial Killer</i> brings this terrifying saga to life.</p>