Book Review- "Starvation Heights" by Gregg Olsen

"Starvation Heights" by Gregg Olsen is a fascinating piece of history from the tiny town of Olalla, Washington  which is across the Puget Sound from Seattle.

Doctor Linda Burfield Hazzard created the Wilderness Heights Sanitarium in Olalla in the early 1900s. Doctor Hazzard believed that extreme fasting was the cure to most if not all ailments. 

After Dr. Hazzard's fasting treatment led to the death of one her patients, she was charged with murder. Starvation Heights is a well-written and well-researched account of  what was a nearly forgotten piece of Washington State history.