Evil Guardian
by Scott Bonn
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Pub Date 1 Nov 2018 | Archive Date 13 Dec 2018
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Description
Charles Lundquist is chaplain at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Westchester County, New York, located forty-five miles northwest of Manhattan. He is also a serial killer who preys on teenage girls.
Lundquist is a cold-blooded psychopath who calls his murderous alter ego the guardian because he believes that he is serving God and protecting innocent females from evil by killing them. Ironically, he loves to kill and his lust for blood is insatiable. When New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton realizes that a serial killer is on the loose in Manhattan, he assigns homicide captain James Pritchard to lead the manhunt.
Pritchard is a talented but troubled detective who is dealing with the deaths of his wife and teenage daughter killed by a drunken driver. The hunt for the guardian quickly becomes a personal obsession for Pritchard. Joining him in his quest to find the guardian is a brilliant and attractive FBI special agent named Julia Cassidy. Cassidy, too, becomes obsessed with stopping the guardian, and she and Pritchard quickly form a powerful, intimate bond. By the time that the guardian has claimed his fifth victim, the city of New York is in a state of complete panic. Making matters worse, the killer is taunting James Pritchard in letters he sends to the news media; daring the homicide captain to catch him. Pritchard and Cassidy become desperate in their investigation due to the absence of leads. They soon recognize that they are facing an adversary unlike any other they have ever encountered.
The guardian is cunning, meticulous, arrogant, compulsive, unremorseful, and he will never stop killing.
"Dr. Scott Bonn's in-depth interviews with real-life serial killers gives us great insights into their minds in this novel. Dr. Bonn has made it his life's quest to understand what "evil" truly is and he delivers it in this powerful and disturbing story. His writing should be required reading for both students and law enforcement professionals."
Sal LaBarbera - Retired Detective Supervisor, LAPD Homicide and TV Personality
"Scott Bonn is an expert on mass deception, serial killers, and manipulation of perception. BONN's EVIL GUARDIAN is a fact-based serial killer novel that is as daring, gripping and relentless as the killer himself."
Burl Barer, Edgar Award winning author
"Everything Scott Bonn learned studying real-life serial perpetrators for his book Why We Love Serial Killers he now puts into this compellingly told and twisted fictional tale of serial homicide."
Peter Vronsky, Author of Sons of Cain
"Dr. Bonn has taken his vast experience in true crime and put it to great use in his novel "Evil Guardian. He takes you inside the mind of a psychopathic killer. You'll love this book but don't be surprised if you have trouble sleeping for a while after you finish. It's that good!"
Tricia Griffith, Owner and Host of Websleuths Radio
Advance Praise
"Scott Bonn's Evil Guardian is a page-turning tale of serial murder and suspense that reads like a true crime procedural - not surprising since Dr. Bonn is a world-class expert in the psychology of violent predators. If you are looking for a thriller that is chillingly grounded in the reality of behavioral science, this is the one!"
- Mark Olshaker, best-selling coauthor of Mindhunter, The Case That Haunt Us and Law & Disorder
"Dr. Bonn has taken his vast experience in true crime and put it to great use in his novel "Evil Guardian. He takes you inside the mind of a psychopathic killer. You'll love this book but don't be surprised if you have trouble sleeping for a while after you finish. It's that good!"
- Tricia Griffith, Owner and Host of Websleuths Radio
Featured Reviews
I could hardly come up for air whilst reading this book. It certainly had me on the edge of my chair! It felt as if i was racing around with the FBI trying to catch the Guardian (Charles Lundquist), who was killing young girls and dropping them in to the river, tied up with blue cord and a heavy iron cross around their necks. I will certainly be wanting to read more by this author. Recommended.
My thanks to Netgalley and the Publishers for my copy. This is my honest review.
This was an enthralling crime novel. I was engaged from page one. Bonn captures the mind of a serial killer and details the twisted intent of Charles Lundquist. Thanks to BooksGoSocial and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.
Seems strange to admit that a book written about a serial killer could be engrossing but this one is definitely that
Well written fascinating storyline.
Written by a criminology professor and based on a true story - one is left to wonder which serial killer did he base his story on.
Hard to put down although it made me wince more than once.