The Skin Gods: A Novel of Suspense
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Richard Montanari. (2006). The Skin Gods: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group.

Richard Montanari. 2006. The Skin Gods: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group.

Richard Montanari, The Skin Gods: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group, 2006.

Richard Montanari. The Skin Gods: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group, 2006.

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   • bioText: Richard Montanari is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and scores of other national and regional publications. He is the OLMA-winning author of the internationally acclaimed thrillers The Rosary Girls, Kiss of Evil, Deviant Way, and The Violet Hour. Visit the author’s website at www.richardmontanari.com.
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo Man.
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, Detective Kevin Byrne warily returns to police headquarters. He cannot shake the memory of the Rosary Killer’ s innocent victims–or his growing sense that the evil has not been vanquished. And when he and his partner, Detective Jessica Balzano, are called in on a bizarre case, Byrne’s gravest suspicions are confirmed.
A madman, dubbed The Actor by the homicide unit, is meticulously re-creating Hollywood’s most famous–and most gruesome–death scenes. The first murder is caught on film, spliced into a rented VHS edition of the Hitchcock black-and-white masterpiece Psycho. But in place of Janet Leigh is a real-life woman, and this time, the blood is red and the knife is real. Soon, more thrilling classics are turned into terrifying snuff films and placed on video store shelves for an unsuspecting public to find.
The key to this horrific puzzle could lie with any of The Skin Gods’ supporting cast: the A-list Hollywood director, the ruthless executive assistant, the convicted mass murderer–or perhaps someone else who has made a sinister art of gruesome violence.
Hot on the psychopath’s trail, Balzano and Byrne descend into the mouth of madness and beyond, deep into the depraved underworld of S&M clubs and the porn industry, where the worship of flesh leads to malevolent evil. Before the final credits roll, the investigators will discover that none of The Actor’s victims are as innocent as they appear to be, and that the clue the police need to prevent future murders might be found in Detective Byrne’s own dark past.

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   • source: James Ellroy
   • content: "Readers of this terrifying page-turner are in the hands of a master storyteller. Be prepared to stay up all night."
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   • source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
   • content: "Thoroughly creepy . . . [an] effective blend of the angelic and the demonic . . . Montanari gets it right."
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   • source: Tess Gerritsen
   • content: "A relentlessly suspenseful, soul-chilling thriller that hooks you instantly."
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   • source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
   • content: "Gripping . . . You begin The Rosary Girls out of curiosity but finish it out of compulsion."
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   • source: Kingston Observer
   • content: "Nonstop action and nail-biting suspense . . . a page-turning heart-stopping winner."
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   • content: "A no-holds-barred thriller . . . Those with a taste for Thomas Harris will look forward to the sure-to-follow sequel."
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     November 14, 2005
     In this high-body-count chiller from the author of The Rosary Girls
     , Philadelphia homicide detectives Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne are up against a savagely inventive serial killer with a yen for stomach-churning cinema verité. Copycat murders modeled on Psycho
     , Fatal Attraction
     and other movies are terrorizing the city, as the "auteur" slayer splices film of his bloody re-enactments into rental videos surreptitiously stolen from and then returned to video stores. Byrne, recovering from a near-fatal gunshot wound and swallowing Vicodin like candy, is working half time, so it's up to his eager partner, Balzano, to take the lead in the investigation. Montanari's short, punchy chapters propel the convoluted—and kinky—plot, which caroms between the big-budget movie sets of a Philadelphia filmmaker made good and an underground porn industry where good girls go bad. Several potential perpetrators rear their creepy heads, but the real killer comes out of left field—though readers very attentive to scattered clues won't be too taken aback by the gory denouement. Byrne's awkward relationship with his deaf teenage daughter, Colleen, after his divorce, and Balzano's concern for her precocious three-year-old daughter, Sophie, after she boots her philandering husband (and fellow cop) out of the house, add welcome humanity to a grisly, atmospheric thriller.

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     December 1, 2005
     In Philadelphia, a serial killer is replicating death scenes from famous movies, even going so far as to splice his grizzly re-creations (the shower scene from " Psycho" , the chainsaw scene from " Scarface" ) into VHS rental copies of the films. Homicide cops Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne are tough, inventive detectives who are determined to bring the killer down, assuming they can figure out the madness to his method. The two cops make a good team, their individual strengths and weaknesses playing off each other nicely; the author avoids the usual lighthearted cop-banter, which would have been distracting in this intensely dramatic story. Every hero needs a villain, naturally, and, in chapters written from the killer's point of view, Montanari lets us get up close and personal with the murderous psycho. The book is full of supporting characters that could be central to the plot or could be elaborate red herrings; either way, the author keeps us on our toes. And one of the story's many threads, which leads us into Kevin Byrne's past, packs a solid emotional wallop. The best-selling Montanari has another hit on his hands here. The " Skin Gods" is perfect for anyone who enjoys a well-crafted thriller. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2005, American Library Association.)

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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, Detective Kevin Byrne warily returns to police headquarters. He cannot shake the memory of the Rosary Killer’ s innocent victims–or his growing sense that the evil has not been vanquished. And when he and his partner, Detective Jessica Balzano, are called in on a bizarre case, Byrne’s gravest suspicions are confirmed.
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