Summary

Chapter 1

Camille Preaker works for the Chicago Daily Press, but hates the work. When she became a reporter she envisioned herself doing hard hitting investigative pieces. The reality of the job has left her in a third floor office building in downtown Chicago, where the most investigation she does is what's been left over in the employee's refrigerator.

When Camille's editor, Curry, asks her into his office, she's sure that she's about to be given a lecture about injecting energy and emotion into her pieces. However, he shocks her when he gives her an assignment that will actually entail her leaving the office. The catch? She has to go back to her hometown in Kansas: Wind Gap. Two little girls have been brutally murdered. Learning that the assignment is in Wind Gap, Camille tries her best to convince Curry that since she's from...