Book Beginnings - The Devil in the White City

Book Beginnings is a meme hosted by Rose City Reader. Share the first sentence (or so) of a book you are currently reading, along with your initial thoughts and impressions about the sentence or book. Remember to include the title of the book and the author AND link up at the Rose City Reader

How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago. Many of these trains brought single young women who had never seen a city but now hoped to make one of the biggest and toughest their home. 

I chose to include the beginning from the first chapter because I thought it was more interesting than the first lines of the prologue. I'm thinking someone, some girl is going to disappear and be murdered...maybe a lot of young women will disappear, and it will most likely happen at or revolve around a fair. How do I know that? The subtitle is Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. Other than that piece of information, I have no idea what this book is about. I'm assuming it's a great piece of historical, crime fiction and I hope it's as sinister as the title implies. Also, it's the last book I need to read, in order to complete the Color-coded Reading Challenge--I''m really happy for that.