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Lake of Darkness: A Novel
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An alternate history where power, crime, and the supernatural intersect on the South Side of
Chicago. During the First World War, on the South Side of Chicago, officer Joe “Flip” Flippity has
begun an investigation into a serial decapitationist who is hunting young children. At a time when
African American officers are rendered second-class by prejudicial policies, Flip is nonetheless
called upon by the mayor of the city—the legendary Big Bill Thompson himself—and a host of
powerful city fathers, to thwart this murderer who threatens to destroy the city's reputation as a
safe haven for those making the Great Migration north. While searching to catch his killer—and to
discover why the most powerful men in Chicago are truly concerned about the murders of poor
black refugees—Flip's bloody trail takes him through the South Side’s vice districts (where
anything is available for a price), across its most dangerous criminal underbellies, and into a
bracing and unexpected world of supernatural horror. As Flip digs deeper in his quest to protect
the city’s most vulnerable, he stumbles upon more mysterious murders, confounding psychological
puzzles, and terrifying hints of something other that may reach across from unknowable distances
to guide the hand of a killer. It soon becomes apparent that all is not as it seems, and that
mysterious and powerful forces are conspiring to stand in Flip’s way. A combination of detective
thriller, cosmic horror, and historical fiction, Lake of Darkness takes us to the deepest and darkest
places in Chicago’s very dark history.
An alternate history where power, crime, and the supernatural intersect on the South Side of
Chicago. During the First World War, on the South Side of Chicago, officer Joe “Flip” Flippity has
begun an investigation into a serial decapitationist who is hunting young children. At a time when
African American officers are rendered second-class by prejudicial policies, Flip is nonetheless
called upon by the mayor of the city—the legendary Big Bill Thompson himself—and a host of
powerful city fathers, to thwart this murderer who threatens to destroy the city's reputation as a
safe haven for those making the Great Migration north. While searching to catch his killer—and to
discover why the most powerful men in Chicago are truly concerned about the murders of poor
black refugees—Flip's bloody trail takes him through the South Side’s vice districts (where
anything is available for a price), across its most dangerous criminal underbellies, and into a
bracing and unexpected world of supernatural horror. As Flip digs deeper in his quest to protect
the city’s most vulnerable, he stumbles upon more mysterious murders, confounding psychological
puzzles, and terrifying hints of something other that may reach across from unknowable distances
to guide the hand of a killer. It soon becomes apparent that all is not as it seems, and that
mysterious and powerful forces are conspiring to stand in Flip’s way. A combination of detective
thriller, cosmic horror, and historical fiction, Lake of Darkness takes us to the deepest and darkest
places in Chicago’s very dark history.