Title: Saint Bloodbath
Author: Frederick Douglass Reynolds
Publisher: DeltonRamsey
ISBN: B0C2SBF6H6
Pages: 375
Genre: True Crime Biographies
Synopsis
Detectives McGuire and Cortes take on a gruesome homicide case in Long Beach, California, and navigate the complex role of being the murder police in an area marked by homelessness, drug abuse, and gang violence. With little but their combined decades of detective experience to go off of, they investigate personal and gang-related motives in an attempt to identify and arrest their suspect. When a severed hand is found in the desert nearly 100 miles away, their years-long investigation crosses jurisdictions, and they must connect the dots before the bloodbath continues.
Saint Bloodbath explores the true story of multiple heinous crimes, but perhaps more importantly, highlights the lives and experiences of the victims, their peers, and the investigators who sought to bring a murderer to justice.
About the Author
Frederick Douglass Reynolds is a retired L.A. County Sheriff’s Homicide Sergeant. He was born in Rocky Mount, Virginia and grew up in Detroit Michigan. He joined the US Marine Corps in 1979 and after a brief stint in Okinawa, Japan, he finished out his military career in Southern California and ultimately became a police officer with the Compton Police Department. He worked there from 1985 until 2000, and then transferred to the Sheriff’s Department where he worked an additional seventeen years until he retired in 2017. After retiring, he took up writing as a hobby. "Saint Bloodbath" is his second book. His first, "Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement, has won 22 book awards and was the Grand Prize winner in the 2022 Independent Author Network book awards. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Carolyn, and their daughter Lauren and young son, Desmond. The author and his wife have six other adult children and nine grandchildren.