The Fifth Floor Book

Michael Harveyâ??s sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way (â??A wonderful first novel . . . Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the crime novel . . . Heralds the arrival of a major new voiceâ? â??Michael Connelly) opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. Oâ??Learyâ??s cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.Private investigator Michael Kelly, the Windy Cityâ??s answer to Philip Marlowe, is back in another page-turner that revives a tantalizing mystery buried in Chicagoâ??s past. 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 Kelly to an old house on Chicagoâ??s North Side. Inside it, he finds a body, and perhaps the answer to one of Chicagoâ??s most enduring mysteries: who started the Great Chicago Fire and why. The ensuing investigation takes Kelly to places heâ??d rather not go: specifically, City Hallâ??s 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, and along the way, he finds himself framed for murder, before finally facing a killer bent on rewriting history.The Fifth Floor is fast-stepping, intricately woven suspense, rich with the lore and atmosphere of a great city. A marvelous successor to Harveyâ??s critically acclaimed debut.Read More