Edward Lister is a successful businessman, one of the titans of the British music industry. It would seem he can only be envied—until tragedy suddenly invades his life: his eighteen-year-old daughter Sophie, studying art in Florence, is killed by a mysterious maniac.
The police are powerless, and Edward decides to take the investigation into his own hands when he begins receiving messages from the maniac himself—who calls himself the Guardian. Apparently, the Guardian and Sophie met online, and the deeper Edward delves into the killer’s psychological profile, the more he finds frighteningly familiar traits: after all, the maniac is not alien to internet chat rooms and dating websites—by no means. What if his daughter was not a random victim at all?
A new detective novel by Charles McLean—author of the phenomenal bestseller “The Guardian”—can be compared at once to “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Loneliness on the Net.”