Starvation Heights

Michele and I recently had Gregg Olsen come on the Market Ghost Tour. He is the author of Starvation Heights, an incredible book about Linda Hazzard, a fasting doctor here in Seattle. His ability to create vivid images in his writing invokes a Seattle from the early 1900's; the Northwest, in it's rugged inception, the personalities and culture of the time become alive, while many of Dr. Hazzard's patients die.

It is a frightening read.

The true story revolves around two rich English sisters that undergo Hazzard's fasting cure. The results are fatal and the trial that follows a gripping testimony to a young territory and country. If you read this book, you will not be disappointed.  

Some links:

Starvation Heights, on Amazon.com
Starvation Heights
Gregg Olsen
Gregg Olsen, about the Market Ghost Tours