Richard Montanari

Badlands: A Novel of Suspense by Richard Montanari

Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jes more...1 point

Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are working a new beat: the Special Investigations Unit, aka the cold case squad. Ironic, given that it's the height of a blazing hot August. But even these hardened homicide veterans are chilled to the bone as a dormant murder case stirs to life-leading Byrne and Balzano into the dark heart of their city, their souls, and a psyche of pure evil.Months before, a teenage runaway's body was found in the desolate, dangerou...1 point

Merciless: A Novel of Suspense by Richard Montanari

On a frigid December night, Karen sits at the edge more...0 points

On a frigid December night, Karen sits at the edge of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River, dressed in a flowing gown, like a visitor from the distant past. A beautiful and shining young woman, she gazes up at a bone-white winter moon like a fairy-tale princess frozen in time. At first glance, one might not even notice that she is dead, coated in a glistening patina of ice. Homicide cops Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano take the lead on the case, uncovering a plethora of eerie clues-each mor...0 points

The Skin Gods: A Novel by Richard Montanari

With the breakneck pacing and intricate plotting o more...0 points

With the breakneck pacing and intricate plotting of his most recent novel, The Rosary Girls, Richard Montanari established himself as one of the most exciting suspense writers working today. Now he proves himself a virtuoso with The Skin Gods, an explosive new thriller featuring Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano.It is the steaming heart of summer in the City of Brotherly Love. Back on the force after taking a bullet during the arrest of a sadistic murderer, Detecti...0 points

The Rosary Girls: A Novel by Richard Montanari

In his sleek, visceral novels Deviant Way, Kiss of more...0 points

In his sleek, visceral novels Deviant Way, Kiss of Evil, and The Violet Hour, Richard Montanari slammed into the suspense field like a force of nature. Now Montanari has written an astounding novel that pits two besieged detectives against a fiercely intelligent serial killer.Sprawling beneath the statue of William Penn, Philadelphia is a city of downtrodden crack houses and upscale brownstones. Somewhere in this concrete crazy quilt, one teenage Catholic girl is writing in her diary, another is...0 points

Deviant Way by Richard Montanari

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Kiss of Evil: A Novel of Suspense by Richard Montanari

Detective Michael Ryan died in Cleveland's Renaiss more...0 points

Detective Michael Ryan died in Cleveland's Renaissance Hotel two years ago, murdered with his own weapon. A stunning fashion model was accused of the crime, then cleared-leaving a good cop's name forever tainted by these damning words: corruption, greed, and betrayal.Since that time homicide detective John Salvatore Paris has worked long and hard to salvage his good friend Mike Ryan's reputation, but with no success. Now the beautiful suspect who walked away has perished in a fiery suicide. The...0 points

Merciless: A Novel of Suspense by Richard Montanari

From Publishers Weekly: Philadelphia detectives K more...0 points

From Publishers Weekly: Philadelphia detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano trail another serial killer in Montanari's undistinguished third novel of suspense (after 2006's The Skin Gods). Byrne's chance encounter in a diner with Anton Krotz, a violent thug, ends tragically when a moment of hesitation costs the life of Krotz's innocent female hostage and the woman's grieving husband swears revenge. That threat looms over Byrne as a psychotic murderer begins to amass an alarming body count,...0 points

The Violet Hour by Richard Montanari

A popular priest lies dead of a heroin overdose in more...0 points

A popular priest lies dead of a heroin overdose in a Cleveland apartment, following an apparent tryst with a high-priced call girl. A freelance journalist recognizes a great story--salacious and saleable--in the cleric's demise...and follows it into the twisted, terrifying mind of a psychopath. While in an affluent suburb a world away, a cryptic threat written in a great poet's words appears on the computer screen of a long-suffering wife and mother. And suddenly she knows that a nightmare stand...0 points

The Rosary Girls by Montanari Richard

Five abducted girls. An unlikely pair of homicide more...0 points

Five abducted girls. An unlikely pair of homicide detectives. A killer who is evil incarnate.... Philadelphia cop Jessica Balzano has just been promoted to Homicide, partnered with veteran detective Kevin Byrne, known for his unorthodox waysand for catching killers most cops could never touch. Together the two must hunt down a madman whos preying on Catholic schoolgirls, using them as pawns in his own twisted passion play before brutally taking their lives. As the victim toll mounts, it becomes...0 points

The Skin Gods: A Novel of Suspense by Richard Montanari

With the breakneck pacing and intricate plotting o more...0 points

With the breakneck pacing and intricate plotting of his most recent novel, The Rosary Girls, Richard Montanari established himself as one of the most exciting suspense writers working today. Now he proves himself a virtuoso with The Skin Gods, an explosive new thriller featuring Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano.It is the steaming heart of summer in the City of Brotherly Love. Back on the force after taking a bullet during the arrest of a sadistic murderer, Detecti...0 points