Milwaukee Author, Cynthia Rice, will be here to sign copies of her book: The Last Broken Girl.

In THE LAST BROKEN GIRL, Erin Moore, a self-doubting psychologist who was kidnapped as a teenager in a small Midwest town, learns her abductor is up for parole.

The police always believed her captor acted alone, and that the female accomplice Erin described years ago was the fabrication of a traumatized mind.

Twenty years later, Erin leads a rigidly structured life with her husband and two young daughters and has a successful psychology practice. When her abductor is paroled but goes missing leaving behind a large pool of blood, Erin and her husband become suspects. Erin receives photographs of her daughters with threatening notes and is certain they are from the female accomplice. She is unable to convince the police the menace is real.

As Erin watches her life unravel, including her marriage, career and possibly her sanity, she knows the only way out is to bring the accomplice to justice, even if it’s twenty year late.

Mystery author Cynthia Rice is a physician who grew up in Sheboygan County and is now living in the Milwaukee area. Her debut novel, The Last Broken Girl, a psychological suspense was published in June 2024, and it won the 2023 Claymore Award. She has a short story in an anthology Gone Fishin': Crime Takes a Holiday,  coming out on February 1, 2025. When she is not working on her next novel or short story (or planning a literary murder) she keeps busy traveling, as well as playing golf and tennis.