Richard Montanari. (2005). The Rosary Girls: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group.

Richard Montanari. 2005. The Rosary Girls: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group.

Richard Montanari, The Rosary Girls: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group, 2005.

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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 Kiss of Evil, Deviant Way, and The Violet Hour–all published in more than twenty countries. Visit the author’s website at www.richardmontanari.com.
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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 pouring her heart out to a friend, and yet another is praying. And somewhere in this city is a man who wants these young women to make his macabre fantasy become reality. In a passion play of his own, he will take the girls–and a whole city–over the edge.
Kevin Byrne is a veteran cop who already knows that edge: He’s been living on it far too long. His marriage failing, his former partner wasting away in a hospital, and his heart lost to mad fury, Byrne loves to take risks and is breaking every rule in the book. And now he has been given a rookie partner. Jessica Balzano, the daughter of a famous Philly cop, doesn’t want Byrne’s help. But they will need each other desperately, since they’ve just caught the case of a lifetime: Someone is killing devout young women, bolting their hands together in prayer, and committing an abomination upon their otherwise perfect bodies.
Byrne and Balzano spearhead the hunt for the serial killer, who leads them on a methodically planned journey. Suspects appear before them like bad dreams–and vanish just as quickly. And while Byrne’s sins begin to catch up with him, and Balzano tries to solve the blood-splattered puzzle, the body count rises. Meanwhile, the calendar is approaching Easter and the day of the resurrection. When the last rosary is counted, a madman’s methods will be revealed, and the final crime will be the one that hurts the most.
Relentlessly paced and vividly told, The Rosary Girls is a smart, emotionally complex, fiercely gripping thriller from an author who takes chances, breaks new ground, and leaves readers haunted and moved long after the last page is turned.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo Man.

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   • source: Phillip Margolin, author of Lost Lake
   • content: "The Rosary Girls is a well-written, fast-moving thriller with twists and turns galore that will keep you guessing until the end."
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   • source: James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential
   • 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: Tess Gerritsen
   • content: "A relentlessly suspenseful, soul-chilling thriller that hooks you instantly."
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     December 13, 2004
     A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred review.
     
     THE ROSARY GIRLS
     Richard Montanari
     . Ballantine
     , $23.95 (416p) ISBN 0-345-47095-8
     
     A specialist in serial killer tales (Kiss of Evil
     , etc.
     ) offers the gory first in a projected series. A religious nut is preying on Catholic schoolgirls, picking them off with impunity while Philadelphia detective Kevin Byrne and his new partner, Jessica Balzano, wring their hands and wrack their brains. The victims are found with their necks broken, their hands bolted together in prayer and their vaginas sewn shut. Byrne has a problematic past and a Vicodin habit, and Jessica's daughter, Sophie, is a tempting target for the killer, especially since her dad, undercover cop Vincent Balzano, has been kicked out of the house for cheating on Jessica. Several red herring suspects keep both cops and readers off balance, and there are plenty of subplots—Jessica is a female boxer, Byrne is the divorced father of a deaf daughter, there's a nosy tabloid reporter trying to start trouble. But most of these mini-dramas serve only to provide a breather between sadistic mutilations. Montanari can be a wonderfully evocative writer, but the final unveiling of the madman's identity will draw cries of foul from readers who expect a fighting chance at figuring out who the guilty party is. Agent, Meg Ruley. (Feb.)
     
     Forecast:
     Ballantine is pushing this one as Montanari's breakout book—and it's a featured alternate of the Literary Guild, the Mystery Guild and the Doubleday Book Club—but the dangling subplots and a formulaic ending may hobble it a bit
     .

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     December 15, 2004
     It's every Philadelphia cop's dream to make it to the homicide unit. For Jessica Balzano, formerly on traffic detail, she couldn't be more excited or more anxious. Jessica jumps in feet first when, on day one, she and her partner--the confident Kevin Byrne, who has a reputation for skillfully but unconventionally solving murders--get a call saying that a homeless man has found the dead body of a teenage girl. The victim turns out to be Tessa Wells, a student at the same Catholic girls' high school that Jessica attended. Returning to the school to investigate brings back memories of Jessica's high-school woes, but teenage growing pains pale in comparison to Tessa's fate--raped and murdered with a rosary, which quickly becomes the killer's calling card, tied around her hands. Montanari jumps between following the investigation and tracking the killer as the horrific events unfold. This high-concept, heavily promoted thriller--the first of what promises to be a grisly series starring two likable Philly detectives--could vault genre veteran Montanari into the big time.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2004, American Library Association.)

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     January 15, 2005
     Leaving behind Cleveland detective Jack Paris, Montanari ("Kiss of Evil") introduces Philadelphia veteran cop Kevin Byrne and his rookie partner Jessica Balzano. What hasn't changed is the twisted serial killer and the gore-drenched violence that are Montanari's trademarks. Here the Philly killer targets teenage girls attending Catholic schools, leaving a rosary with each corpse and a clue to the next murder. This is a no-holds-barred thriller with driving prose that thrusts the reader into the black soul of the killer. The plot is cleverly crafted, the appealing characters are multidimensional, and those with a taste for Thomas Harris will look forward to the sure-to-follow sequel. Recommended for popular fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ "10/1/04.] -Rebecca House Stankowski, Purdue Univ. Calumet Lib., Hammond, IN

     Copyright 2005 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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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 pouring her heart out to a friend, and yet another is praying. And somewhere in this city is a man who wants these young women to make his macabre fantasy become reality. In a passion play of his own, he will take the girls–and a whole city–over the edge.
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