Death in the Air

I knew a little bit about the smog of 1952 (probably due to “The Crown”) and a lot about Reg Christie (thanks to true crime podcast Murder Mile) but found every bit of this book enthralling. Even the bits about parliamentary debates between Norman Dodds and Tories who tried to cover up the smog deaths. I loved the stories about individual families and victims of the smog, which humanized the catastrophe in a way that statistics can't. Ultimately, for me, the Reg Christie storyline served as macabre entertainment between more interesting sections about the smog.