The White City by Grace Hitchcock
Published by Barbour Books on March 1, 2019
Genres: Christian, Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Suspense
Pages: 256
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Mysterious Disappearances Taint the Chicago World’s FairStep into True Colors — a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime
While attending the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, Winnifred Wylde believes she witnessed a woman being kidnapped. She tries to convince her father, an inspector with the Chicago police, to look into reports of mysterious disappearances around the White City. Inspector Wylde tries to dismiss her claims as exaggeration of an overactive imagination, but he eventually concedes to letting her go undercover as secretary to the man in question—if she takes her pistol for protection and Jude Thorpe, a policeman, for bodyguard.
Will she be able to expose H. H. Holmes’s illicit activity, or will Winnifred become his next victim?
This is a new series called True Colors by Grace Hitchcock, with The White City being her debut novel in the series. The series itself is an historical stories of romance and American crime.
Interestingly, Ms. Hitchcock chose to use a real serial killer to base this story on — H.H. Holmes who was labeled America’s First Serial Killer. This man’s crimes were remarkably heinous.. He was active at the time of the Chicago World’s Fair when he had his famous hotel and the strangely built rooms on the upper floors.
The story isn’t fast paced at all, and it really isn’t a true “mystery” since we all know the “whodunit”. The writing and character driven story finds itself gently unfolding without a big wild fanfare or an outrageous storyline to excel it. I found the story developed very naturally with the suspense building slowly, at a perfect pace.
This is an awesome historical novel with a great suspense story, filled with God and romance. The characters are well written and the plot is very well developed. Can’t wait to read book 2 in the series!
Grace Hitchcock is the author of The White City and The Gray Chamber from Barbour Publishing. She has written multiple novellas in The Second Chance Brides, The Southern Belle Brides, and the Thimbles and Threads collections with Barbour Publishing.
She holds a Masters in Creative Writing and a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in History. Grace lives in southern Louisiana with her husband, Dakota, and son.
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I was provided a complimentary copy of this book by Barbour Publishing and Shiloh Run Press through NetGalley. I was not compensated for this review and all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
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