Private detective Michael Kelly returns in a lightning-paced intricately woven mystery When Kelly is hired by an old girlfriend to tail her abusive husband he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature Life however is not so simple The trail leads to a dead body in an abandoned house on Chicagos North Side and then to places Kelly would rather not go specifically City Halls fabled fifth floor where the mayor is feeling the heat Kelly becomes embroiled in a scam that stretches from current politics back to the night Chicago burned to the ground Along the way he finds himself framed for murder before finally facing a killer bent on rewriting history
