The Unknown Beloved: A Novel

In Chicago in 1923, ten-year-old Dani Flanagan comes home to find her parents dead and police at the house. Young patrolman Michael Malone investigates and suspects there is more to the case than authorities want to acknowledge. He is ordered to remain silent, and Dani is sent to live with her aunts in Cleveland. Fifteen years later, Malone is called to Cleveland to investigate a series of murders baffling local law enforcement, including his friend Eliot Ness, the city's director of safety. Malone and Dani encounter each other again in a city gripped by a serial killer. Malone becomes drawn to Dani, who has an affinity for the dead and compassion for the destitute. He recognizes that she may be able to help him solve the case. As violence escalates and Malone and Dani confront the dark secrets connecting them, they race to identify the killer before becoming his next victims.