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"Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there's more to the situation--and to Dani Flanagan herself--than the authorities care to explore. Malone is told to shut his mouth, and Dani is sent away to live with her spinster aunts in Cleveland. Fifteen years later, Michael Malone is summoned to Cleveland to investigate a series of murders that have everyone stumped, including his friend and famed Prohibition agent Eliot Ness, now Cleveland's director of safety. There, in a city caught in the grip of a serial killer, Dani 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 together, it's a race to find the killer or risk becoming his next victims."--Back cover.
Ambrose var byens populære fyr, og Fern havde været forelsket i ham, så længe hun kunne huske. Han var smuk og uopnåelig, hun var klassens stille pige. Men da Ambrose efter high school drager i krig og vender hjem med ar på krop og sjæl, er rollerne pludselig byttet om: Fern er ikke længere den grimme ælling, hun engang var, og Ambrose har mistet sin skønhed i krigen. Den følsomme Fern og den sårede Ambrose mødes igen, og sammen med Ferns barndomsven Bailey begynder de at tilbringe dagene sammen i deres lille amerikanske hjemby. Langsomt opbygger de et stærkt venskab i den lille gruppe, og langsomt får Ambrose øjnene op for den pige, der har elsket ham, så længe hun kan huske. SKRØBELIGE SKØNHED er en fortælling om en lille by, hvor fem high school-venner drager i krig, men kun én vender hjem igen. Det er en fortælling om en piges kærlighed til en traumatiseret dreng og en såret krigers kærlighed til en stille pige. En fortælling om heltemod og stærke venskabsbånd. En moderne Skønheden og udyret-fortælling, som viser, at der er en lille smule skønhed og en lille smule udyr i os alle.
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