Poison Girls

by Cheryl L Reed

Overview

It's the summer of 2008. Chicago's Hyde Park Senator is running for the White House, the city is vying to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, and "poison," a lethal form of heroin, has killed more than 250 people, including dozens of suburban girls from prominent families.

Natalie Delaney, a crime reporter from the Chicago Times, discovers that daughters of Democratic powerhouses are the real targets. Obsessed with finding who is behind the killings, Natalie becomes entangled in an underworld where drugs, cops, gangs, politics, and privilege collide. Risking everything, this reporter becomes the story...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780578342269
Publisher:	Chesapeake Bay Press
Publication date:	01/14/2022
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Cheryl L. Reed is an author and former journalist. She has shadowed dark and mysterious characters-from cops to murder suspects, cloistered nuns to girls doing drugs. Reed's debut novel, Poison Girls, is a thriller about girls from Chicago's political families playing a deadly game involving opioids. Poison Girls won the Chicago Writers' Association Book of the Year Award. Reed's book of nonfiction, Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns, chronicles her bizarre journey of living with religious women in convents off and on for four years. Reed is a former editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times and other publications. She is a two-time recipient of the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Scholar grant to Eastern Europe. She currently lives in the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia where she is at work on a forthcoming suspense novel, Map of My Escape. Visit her at cherylreed.com