From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the
Wind Knows comes the evocative story of two people whose paths collide
against the backdrop of mystery, murder, and the Great Depression.
Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police
swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young
patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there's more to the
situation--and to Dani Flanagan herself--than the authorities care to
explore. Malone is told to shut his mouth, and Dani is sent away to live
with her spinster aunts in Cleveland.
Fifteen years later, Michael Malone is summoned to Cleveland to
investigate a series of murders that have everyone stumped, including
his friend and famed Prohibition agent Eliot Ness, now Cleveland's
director of safety. There, in a city caught in the grip of a serial
killer, Dani and Malone cross paths once again.
Malone is drawn to Dani and her affinity for the dead and compassion for
the destitute. It doesn't take long for him to realize that she could
help him solve his case. As terror descends on the city and Malone and
Dani confront the dark secrets that draw them together, it's a race to
find the killer or risk becoming his next victims.
