Accolades:

Washington State Reads
Oregonian Book Club

Reviews

"Gregg Olsen's extraordinarily perceptive talent as a writer is equaled only by his instinct for the viscerally disturbing. Olsen has given us what few writers do: a real-life horror story of unique literary depth and compassion. It is because Olsen cares so much about the victims of “Dr.” Hazzard that Starvation Heights achieves a Dickensian resonance as reverberating as those long-ago pleas for help."
– Lorian Hemingway,
author of Walk on Water and World Turned Over

"Gregg Olsen is an elegant and thoughtful writer whose account of real life villainry here outdoes anything a novelist might concoct. Those contemplating any bold new diet plan better read Starvation Heights first."
– Les Standiford,
author of Meet You in Hell

"Olsen brings an eye for atmospheric detail to a forgotten terror tale that nearly slipped into oblivion. Demonic and true, this is the even darker side of the health fads satirized in T.C. Boyle's The Road to Wellville."
– Publisher’s Weekly

"A literary and journalistic achievement of the highest order. In Starvation Heights, set in the early 1900s, Gregg Olsen reinforces his standing as one of America's great crime reporters, evoking the sins, spats and spittoons of the early twentieth-century with a master's touch. No reader will ever forget -- Gregg's uncanny ability to recreate the haunts and horrors of the past."
– Jack Olsen,
author of Salt of the Earth and Hastened to the Grave

"Through meticulous reporting Gregg Olsen has masterfully reconstructed a fascinating turn of the century story of medical malpractice and murder. Olsen is a top notch writer. If you liked The Alienist, you'll find Starvation Heights all the more gripping because this story is true."
– Michael Connelly,
author of Trunk Music and The Poet

"If as we're told, there are great lessons to be learned from our history, Gregg Olsen qualifies as a first-rate teacher -- and a rarely gifted storyteller. Starvation Heights will stay with you long after you've read the final page."
– Carlton Stowers,
author of Careless Whispers and Sins of the Son