Erik Larson is an historian who presents well-researched facts in engrossing and  dramatic style.   Dead Wake documents the sinking of the Lusitania.   The Devil in the White City combines the World's Fair in Chicago with the serial killer who used the fair to lure victims.  Thunderstruck relates the connection between inventor Marconi and the murderer Crippen.   In the Garden of Beasts tells of America's ambassador to Germany and his family's
experiences as witnesses to Hitlers rise .
All are paperback and near mint.