When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to entering the professional theater in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan must find her own way to cope with his death.
McCormack Malloy, a fiftyish ex-cop and partner at Gage & Griswell, is sent to find a missing lawyer and the 5.6 million dollars that disappeared from a company fund.
Chicago police sergeant Abe Liebermann is stunned early one morning to hear some of the worst news possible. His brother's son, David, has been murdered in a robbery the night before and David's pregnant wife, Carol, has been seriously wounded.
While visiting the National Figure Skating Championships in Chicago, a top woman skater takes a fall. She is taken to the hospital in critical condition. Nancy suspects sabotage. Then the computer chips in the scoreboard are stolen!.
A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames.
Devastated by her parents' decision to split up, pressured by her boyfriend to have sex, and saddled with a case of chicken pox, fifteen-year-old Keek finds consolation in her beloved, well-worn copy of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar.".
