![]() ![]() As she investigates, she finds that there are secrets both within the City and in her own crets that will change her life forever. Girls are being killed.Īnd Nisha, used to moving freely throughout the city, must find out who the killer is. In short, the City runs smoothly along, with transgressions punished severely, escape forbidden, and everyone in their proper place.īut now the City of a Thousand Dolls is home to a murderer. And though Nisha was too old when she arrived to be placed in one of the city's houses, has a role to file as the matron's assistant, and she has friends, and hopes for her life after she is too old for the City. It is the only home Nisha can remember, though she was six when she was left outside its gate. It is a producer of young women schooled (depending on their talents and temperaments) in various houses as mistresses, healers, musicians, scholars, warriors, and even assassins. ![]() The City of a Thousand Dolls is a sanctuary for unwanted baby girls. City of a Thousand Dolls, by Miriam Forster (Harper, Feb. ![]()
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