Are you a fan of Hannibal Lecter and the demon barber Sweeney Todd? Then The American Sweeney Todd is the book for you. The best-selling author of After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is back with another suspenseful crime thriller.
How could a man poised to be an important surgeon become the most terrifying serial killer of his time, calling himself the American Sweeney Todd?
And why did Sweeney play a taunting cat-and-mouse game with Eliot Ness?
Was it only because they both wanted the same woman?
Or because Sweeney wanted to be more famous than the man who got Al Capone?
Is that why Eliot Ness kept Sweeney’s identity secret for nearly forty years?
In this horrifying psychological thriller, you will get inside of the mind of a real serial killer: the brilliant, highly educated American version of Sweeney Todd, who became the most terrifying serial killer of his time. His identity was a very closely guarded secret for almost four decades until Marilyn J. Bardsley’s extensive investigation uncovered it. This gripping fictional portrayal of the killer’s thoughts and actions is based on extensive interviews with his friends and relatives, the detectives who investigated him, Eliot Ness’s trusted inner circle, a mountain of legal and medical documents, and the killer’s own writings.