Join us for a thrilling good time!

This adult book club dives into page-turning murder mysteries—primarily fiction with the occasional nonfiction true-crime title. Each meeting features a different mocktail, and you’ll take home the recipe card to mix it yourself. Read the book or just come for the conversation!

This month we're reading:
The Devil in the White City
By Erik Larson

"Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.

Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake."

Thursday, December 4 | 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Adults 
📍Benhaven Library: 2815 Olivia Rd. Sanford
❎No Registration Required - Seats available on a first-come basis