The Buffalo Butcher is not a cozy read. But it is a deeply satisfying one — the kind of historical thriller you can sink into for an entire afternoon without surfacing.
Robert Brighton sets the story in 1901 Buffalo during the Pan-American Exposition, and the setting does real work — you feel the heat, the crowds, the dangerous gap between the glittering fairground and the dark margins around it. The five women at the center are vivid and specific, not types.
What sets this apart from standard historical crime fiction is the perspective. Brighton gives agency to the women society had decided to ignore, and that choice makes every scene more urgent.
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