The Unknown Beloved

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,murderand the Great Depression. Chicago1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the househer parents dead. Michael Malonethe young patrolman assigned to the casediscovers there’s more to the situation–and to Dani Flanagan herself–than the authorities care to explore. Malone is told to shut his mouthand Dani is sent away to live with her spinster aunts in Cleveland. Fifteen years laterMichael Malone is summoned to Cleveland to investigate a series of murders that have everyone stumpedincluding his friend and famed Prohibition agent Eliot Nessnow Cleveland’s director of safety. Therein a city caught in the grip of a serial killerDani 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 togetherit’s a race to find the killer or risk becoming his next victims.