CITY OF DARK HEARTS

It is 1893 and Anna Zemeckis, a young New Yorker, goes missing inAmerica's most dangerous city: Chicago. Home to the World's Fair, Chicagois a city of glitz and razzmatazz - a city intoxicated by its ownspectacular wealth - but beneath the sophisticated facade lies a sinisterunderworld of pornography, prostitution and violence. It's a lethal placefor the weak or vulnerable - and Anna isn't the first young woman todisappear without trace. Emily Strauss, an inexperienced but ambitiousreporter from the New York World, is given a treacherous assignment: tofind out what happened to Anna, and to the other missing women. Against apunishing deadline, alone in a dangerous and unfamiliar world, she faces anear-impossible task. And, she soon discovers, a powerful enemy...'Grippingand atmospheric' - "Sunday Telegraph". 'A rich historicalthriller...Combines striking historical detail with a compelling mystery'- "Observer". 'Short chapters and tight plot invoke a cold dread in thereader from the very beginning' - "Daily Telegraph".