Winner of the 2018 Best Novel Award
8th annual Chicago Writers Association
Poison Girls is both breathtaking and compelling...a riveting crime thriller
--M.L. Collins, judge for the Chicago Writers Association Book Awards
--M.L. Collins, judge for the Chicago Writers Association Book Awards
“Already an award-winning investigative reporter, Cheryl Reed now proves equally talented in the world of fiction. At turns raw and tragic, tender and ultimately uplifting, Poison Girls is an impressive debut.”
-- Sean Chercover, award-winning author of The Savior's Game |
“Provocative... Its biggest strength is its evocative depiction of the Windy City.” --Library Journal 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 of a serial killer who uses drugs instead of a gun. 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… |
“An ambitious book, noirish, Dickensian in a modern way, and rooted in the realistic tradition.”
--Stuart Dybek, MacArthur "Genius" Award Winner and author of The Coast of Chicago
--Stuart Dybek, MacArthur "Genius" Award Winner and author of The Coast of Chicago
“Touching, salty, brutal, organized, lost, powerful and tragic.”
--Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction
--Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction
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