Book 3

The Buried Girl

by Richard Montanari

Published 14 February 2019

'Glittering and sharp, an ice pick of a novel. An astounding talent'
AJ Finn, author of The Woman in the Window

A haunting, nerve-jangling psychological thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Montanari set in a small town hiding a very dark secret.

When New York psychologist Will Hardy's wife...

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Book 8

The Stolen Ones

by Richard Montanari

Published 4 July 2013
Destroyed by fire years ago, the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for the criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks Philadelphia's backstreets, drawing to him the mad, the corrupt, the fallen. By day he roams the catacombs beneath the city, killing...Read more

Book 9

The Doll Maker

by Richard Montanari

Published 14 August 2014

'You turn the pages as if your very life depends on it' - Daily Mail

Mr Marseille is polite, elegant, and erudite. He would do anything for his genteel true love Anabelle. And he is a psychopath.


A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young...

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Play Dead

by Richard Montanari

Published 14 August 2008
In each soul, a secret ...Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano's first assignment from the Cold Case files is the brutal murder of a young runaway. The lifeless body of Caitlin O'Riordan was found carefully posed in a glass display case in the desolate Philadelphia Badlands but,...Read more

The Skin Gods

by Richard Montanari

Published 14 March 2006
The streets of Philadelphia are blistering in the summer heat, the homicide rate is soaring and the nights belong to the mad. Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are prowling the streets with a growing sense of unease. Where next will evil rear its ugly head? When a series...Read more

Shutter Man

by Richard Montanari

Published 13 August 2015

'You turn the pages as if your very life depends on it'
Daily Mail

Face your fears in the latest terrifying novel by the hugely acclaimed, bestselling master of the psychopath thriller.

The Farren family has been a plague upon Philadelphia's most dangerous neighbourhood, the Devil's Pocket, for generations. There, row after...

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The Rosary Girls

by Richard Montanari

Published 15 February 2005

God Help Them ...

In the most brutal killing crusade Philadelphia has seen in years, a series of young Catholic women are found dead, their bodies mutilated and their hands bolted together. Each clutches a rosary in her lifeless grasp.

Veteran cop Kevin Byrne and his rookie partner Jessica...

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The Echo Man

by Richard Montanari

Published 3 March 2011

He's coming to get you. The fifth thriller in the compelling Byrne and Balzano series from the Sunday Times bestseller.

It is fall in Philadelphia and the mutilated body of a man is found in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of the city. The victim has been viciously tortured to...

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The Killing Room

by Richard Montanari

Published 1 January 1960
Nothing will ever be the same again...

In the heart of Philadelphia's badlands, Homicide Detectives Byrne and Balzano are called out to a particularly chilling crime scene. Once the pillar of the neighbourhood, an abandoned church has become a killing room.

At first it looks like...Read more

Broken Angels

by Richard Montanari

Published 5 April 2007

Evil preys upon the fallen. The third thriller in the Byrne and Balzano series by the Sunday Times bestselling author.

When the first body is found, mutilated and strangled on the riverbanks, Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano suspect yet another case of random urban violence. Then it...

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A Christmas Killing

by Richard Montanari

Published 6 November 2014

Meet the young Detective Kevin Byrne, rising star of the Philadelphia police force.

Christmas Eve, 1988. Partnered with streetwise veteran Frankie Sheehan, Byrne is called out on a freezing night to investigate the brutal assault of a young woman in a crime-ridden neighbourhood, The Devil's Pocket.

There, with the rest of...

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