A crime reporter discovers a serial killer targeting daughters of Democratic powerhouses in Chicago and becomes entangled in an underworld where drugs, cops, gangs, politics, and privilege collide.
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
