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Winner of the Best Novel Award
8th annual Chicago Writers Association




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Poison Girls is both breathtaking and compelling...a riveting crime thriller
             --M.L. Collins, judge for the Chicago Writers Association Book Awards


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“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 ​
  “Touching, salty, brutal, organized, lost, powerful and tragic.”      
               
--Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction                 
 


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