The Mockingbird at Dawn. Book 1

A world resembling early 20th century Europe. A cold and gloomy city where the echoes of a recent civil war are still heard. A city of police spies and fiery revolutionaries, factory workers and former aristocrats, rebellious poets and mad scientists. And monsters. Clara Silva, in search of a better life, travels to the Capital of the Republic, but strange visions begin to haunt her in the train: her deceased father asks someone to save him, and eerie capriccio dolls turn her dreams into nightmares. Soon Clara realizes that the Capital is much more dangerous than it seems: conspirators lurk everywhere, children disappear off the streets, and at night the line between reality and dreams blurs in the city...