The Bricklayer of Albany Park

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I.B.P.A. Benjamin Franklin Writing Award Gold Medal.M.I.P.A. Winner - Fiction Mystery/Thriller.KillerNashville - Silver Falchion Award 2018 Finalist.Great Midwest Book Festival First Runner Up. Does it take a monster to catch a monster?As a student Francis Vincenti asked his mentor former Chicago PD detective Thomas Aquinas Foster if it took a monster to catch a monster. Foster a man with a tortured soul and his own self-righteous brand of justice didnt have an answer. Now a detective with a string of famous arrests under his belt Vincenti is known as a cop with an uncanny insight into a killers psyche. Until the Bricklayer of Albany Park. Obsessed with the brutal slayings Vincenti studies the murderer and his victims reconstructing the killings and burials by day and at night recreating the murders one by one in his nightmares. He knows the Bricklayer. But not well enough to stop him.