Map of My Escape - Softcover

Cheryl L. Reed (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1960018175 ISBN 13: 9781960018175

Publisher: Running Wild Press, 2024

Synopsis

The shooting of a homicide detective is captured on film by a mysterious figure from a second-floor window, implicating Riley Keane, an anti-gun activist and a school shooting survivor.

Riley flees Chicago for a frozen island in Lake Superior. A race to find her ensues between her secret lover - Chicago politician Finn O’Farrell - a corrupt police lieutenant, and the mysterious cameraman who extorts Riley’s family and Finn. Finn’s entanglement with Riley and the extortionist threatens his ambitious political career.

On the island, Riley ingratiates herself into the close-knit community, but when she witnesses both an islander’s murder and another death in a suspicious boating accident, the local sheriff starts asking questions that begin to unravel her true identity.

As the sheriff and the FBI are closing in on Riley, Finn faces media pressure to reveal his mysterious role in that long ago school shooting. If the facts come out, Finn may go to prison, but his biggest fear is that the truth will forever sever his relationship with Riley.

About this title

About the Author

Cheryl L. Reed is the author of the nonfiction book Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns and the novel Poison Girls, which won the Chicago Writers' Association Book of the Year. A former staff editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times and other publications, Reed's stories have won multiple awards, including Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. She has twice been awarded a U.S. Fulbright Scholar fellowship, first in Ukraine and then in Central Asia. She currently lives near the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Running Wild Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1960018175
• ISBN 13: 9781960018175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277