<div> <b>One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Mystery/Thrillers of the Year<br> One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Best Crime Novels of the Year<br> <br> 1845: New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland.<br> <br> These two events will change New York City forever? </b><br> <br> Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams are destroyed by a fire that devastates downtown Manhattan, he is left with little choice but to accept a job in the newly minted New York City Police Department.<br> <p> Returning exhausted from his rounds one night, Tim collides with a girl no more than ten years old? covered in blood. She claims that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of Twenty-Third Street. Timothy isn’t sure whether to believe her, but as the image of a brutal killer is slowly revealed and anti-Irish rage infects the city, the reluctant copper star is engaged in a battle that may cost him everything? </p></div>