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Children of Chicago

Contributors

By Cynthia Pelayo

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Oct 21, 2025
Page Count
320 pages
Publisher
Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13
9781454961512

Price

$18.99

Price

$24.99 CAD

Format

Format:

  1. Trade Paperback $18.99 $24.99 CAD
  2. ebook $1.99 $2.99 CAD

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From a Bram Stoker Award-winning author, this horrifying retelling of the Pied Piper fairytale set in present-day Chicago is an edge of your seat thrill ride. ‪

When Detective Lauren Medina sees the calling card at a murder scene in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, she knows the Pied Piper has returned. When another teenager is brutally murdered at the same lagoon where her sister’s body was found floating years before, she is certain that the Pied Piper is not just back, he’s looking for payment he’s owed from her.

Lauren’s torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe, and keeping a promise she made long ago with her sister’s murderer. She may have to ruin her life by exposing her secrets and lies to stop the Pied Piper before he collects.


Cynthia Pelayo

About the Author

Cynthia Pelayo is a USA Today bestselling, Bram Stoker Award–winning, and International Latino Book Award–winning author and poet—the first Latina and the first Puerto Rican to win the Bram Stoker Award. She writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. She is the author of Lotería, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Children of Chicago, Crime Scene, The Shoemaker’s Magician, Forgotten Sisters, Vanishing Daughters, and It Came From Neverland, as well as dozens of standalone short stories and poems.

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