Richard Montanari

Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings. At...

"Taut, propulsive and darkly gripping, Montanari is a master of suspense." –Chris Ewan A haunting, nerve-jangling psychological thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Montanari, set in a small town hiding a very dark secret New York psychologist Will Hardy had it all-a loving family, a flourishing career, a bestselling book. Until the night it all ended in a tempest of fire and ash, leaving only Will and his fifteen-year-old...

Am Weihnachtsabend 1988 wird der junge Detective Kevin Byrne in die eisige Nacht gerufen. Zusammen mit Frankie Sheehan, dem Dienstältesten der Truppe, soll er den brutalen Angriff auf eine junge Frau untersuchen. Während der Rest der Stadt das Fest der Liebe begeht, stellen Byrne und sein Partner eines der düstersten und gefährlichsten Viertel der Stadt auf den Kopf, um den Täter schnellstens zu finden - Detective Kevin Byrne in einem seiner...