The Chalk Girl (A Mallory Novel)The eight year old girl appeared in New Yorks Central Park one day: red haired, blue eyed, dirty faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairyexcept for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. It happened while she was looking for her Uncle Red, who had turned into a tree. Right, they thought, poor child. And then they found the body in the tree. For Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit