Bill Schweigart will visit to present and sign his new book, The Guilty One, at the Lyceum.

Every town needs a hero--and Detective Cal Farrell fits the bill. He stopped an active shooter six months earlier, and now he's become the darling of the Alexandria press. The problem is that Cal remembers nothing from that day. He's working with a psychiatrist to recover his memories, but hasn't had much luck.

Then, on one of his morning runs, he is once again the first on scene for a grisly discovery--a body hanging impossibly high on a tree. Soon there's another victim, killed by a blade and dumped in a ravine. As the bodies begin to stack up, each staged more gruesomely than the last, Cal sees a baroque pattern to the crimes that no one else seems to understand--something out of legend.

As Alexandria dubs the serial killer "Old Town Jack," Cal learns that the only thing a city loves more than creating a hero is tearing one down. And if he can't get to the truth, this hometown hero might just be next in line for destruction.

Bill Schweigart is the author of The Guilty One and “Women and Children First,” a story co-written with James Patterson in Three Days to Live. He is also the author of The Fatal Folklore Trilogy, which includes The Beast of Barcroft, Northwoods, and The Devil’s Colony. He is a former Coast Guard officer who drew from his experiences at sea to write the nautical thriller, Slipping the Cable and the romantic comedy, Running Light. Bill currently lives in Arlington, VA with his wife and daughter, who along with their monstrous Newfoundland and four cats, provide him with all the adventure he can handle.