RICHARD MONTANARI

The lifeless body of Caitlin O'Riordan was found carefully posed in a glass display case in the desolate Philadelphia Badlands but, as Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano rapidly discover, she was just the 1st pawn in the killer's twisted game... A mysterious phone call leads them on a scavenger hunt for a 2nd victim.

Du conte de fées au cauchemar, il n'y a qu'un pas. Il suffit d'une seule nuit, d'une seule lune. Au bord de la rivière Schuylkill, une jeune femme semble reposer, sagement allongée. Mais la belle ne

Police Offer Mike Ryan is murdered by a beautiful woman with his own gun and his name is dragged through the mud with accusations of bribery and corruption. His friend Detective Paris makes it a mission to clear his name, at whatever cost. But when Ryan´s murderer is found dead of an apparent suicide, a rash of brutal murders begins to terrorize the city of Cleveland.

Michael Roman is finally living the life he always dreamed of - he has a successful career, a beautiful wife and adorable twin daughters. But his idyllic life is about to come crashing down around him - because Michael is a man with a past. A rising star in the New York District Attorney's office and on the cusp of enormous success, Michael's perfect life begins to unravel when he finds himself the target of a depraved madman, a man who covets everything Michael has and will stop at nothing to take it all away. In a desperate fight to survive, Michael is forced to confront the dark secrets of his past in order to save his family.He must hunt down the psychopath who is targeting his family and, before it is too late, face the devil himself ...

Your face is a blur to him. But your body still bleeds. The Farren family has been a plague upon Philadelphia's most dangerous neighbourhood, the Devil's Pocket, for generations. There, row after row of tumbledown houses hide dark secrets - none darker than Billy, the youngest Farren. Afflicted by a syndrome that means he can't recognise faces, Billy must use photographs to identify his family - and his victims. And when your life has bled away, he takes a final, gruesome picture for his wall. But what is the meaning of the horrific ritual Billy enacts with every murder? And is there any connection to a childhood event Detective Kevin Byrne has buried so well it's hidden even from his former partner Jessica Balzano?

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 daughter. And there she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Strangled. Beside her is a formal invite to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in a disused house, posed on painted swings. At the scene is an identical invite. This time, though, there is something extra waiting for Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. A delicate porcelain doll. It's a message. And a threat. With Marseille and Anabelle stalking the city, Detectives Byrne and Balzano have just seven days to find the link between the murders before another innocent child is snatched from its streets.

Sommer in Philadelphia. Doch die Ruhe trugt. Kevin Byrne, Detective der Mordkommission, und seine Partnerin Jessica Balzano werden zu einem bizarren Fall hinzugerufen. Eine Frau ist ermordet worden, und ihr Todeskampf wurde von dem Morder auf Video aufgenommen, hineingeschnitten in die beruhmte Dusch-Szene aus Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho. Doch diesmal ist das Blut rot und das Messer real. Bald tauchen weitere Filmklassiker auf, in denen Mordszenen nachgestellt und nachtraglich eingefugt wurden. Ist ein Verruckter am Werk, der die Filmgeschichte zum Hintergrund seiner perversen Phantasien macht?

Una serie de brutales crímenes está sacudiendo la ciudad de Filadelfia. Varias jóvenes católicas han aparecido torturadas y con las manos en cruz asidas a un rosario. Una pareja de detectives, el veterano Kevin Byrne y la joven policia Jessica Balzano, intentara acabar con esta espiral de violencia, pero el abismo de la maldad humana es casi imposible de controlar. Se acerca la Semana Santa y la cifra de muertes aumenta cuando llegue el dia de la resurreccion solo quedara una cuenta del rosario y sera la mas dolorosa.

The Rosary Girls author Richard Montanari delivers another spell-binding, unputdownable thriller ...

Un joven decide alquilar una copia de Psicosis en su videoclub habitual. Pero la agradable sesión de cine casero esconde una macabra sorpresa: la mítica escena de la ducha ha sido sustituida por un asesinato real. En algun lugar de la ciudad una Janet Leigh de carne y hueso ha muerto salvajemente apuñalada y alguien ha grabado en video su asesinato. Pero esta cinta no sera la unica, iran apareciendo otras. Un terrible puzzle que el detective Kevin Byrne y su compañera Jessica Balzano intentaran resolver. La investigacion les llevara hasta los bajos fondos de Filadelfia y el sordido mundo de la industria del porno. Tras el incontestable exito de Las chicas del rosario Montanari regresa con su famosa pareja de detectives y un nuevo e inquietante thriller Una tematica explosiva para el ultimo thriller de Montanari. Un viaje, salpicado de sangre, por lo mas oscuro de la industria cinematografica. Atroz a la vez que atrayente. The Barnes and Noble Review. La prosa de Montanari es adictiva; el argumento esta a la altura de su prosa; los personajes, del primero al ultimo, resultan inolvidables. Bookreporter.com

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.

Only a killer hears their prayers... 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 Balzano set out to hunt down the elusive killer, who leads them deeper and deeper into the abyss of a madman''s depravity. Suspects appear before them like bad dreams - and vanish just as quickly. While the body count rises, Easter is fast approaching: the day of resurrection and of the last rosary to be counted