Merciless: A Novel of Suspense
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Richard Montanari. (2007). Merciless: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group.

Richard Montanari. 2007. Merciless: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group.

Richard Montanari, Merciless: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group, 2007.

Richard Montanari. Merciless: A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group, 2007.

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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 Skin Gods, 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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On a frigid December night, Karen sits at the edge of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River, dressed in a flowing gown, like a visitor from the distant past. A beautiful and shining young woman, she gazes up at a bone-white winter moon like a fairy-tale princess frozen in time. At first glance, one might not even notice that she is dead, coated in a glistening patina of ice.
Homicide cops Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano take the lead on the case, uncovering a plethora of eerie clues–each more warped and spine-chilling than the last. Yet the identity of Karen’s pitiless killer remains a mystery. Then the next victim is found upriver at an abandoned waterworks, posed with an unlikely object in her clasped hands. Struggling to link the victims and make sense of the madman’s agenda, Byrne and Balzano follow his twisted trail, which stretches into a past of dark crimes forgotten by all but a few.
Now the past roars back into the present with a vengeance as the ingenious killer unleashes a torrent of rage upon the streets of Philadelphia. As Byrne and Balzano sift through suspects and clues, they unearth a shocking secret history: a legacy of malevolence and cold-blooded retribution dating back twenty years. And the farther they make their way up the body-strewn banks of the Schuylkill River, the closer they get to a villain from their worst nightmare, an evil as patient as it is merciless.
Lightning fast and razor sharp, this jolting thriller from acclaimed author Richard Montanari coils back in time to deliver a fiendish mystery, a shattering revelation, and one hell of a wild ride. Lock your doors and turn up the lights. Montanari’s terrifying bedtime story will keep you up all night.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo Man.

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   • source: Rocky Mountain News
   • content: "What makes The Skin Gods engrossing isn't just the sustained suspense but the adept rendering of the characters."
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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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   • content: "Gripping . . . You begin The Rosary Girls out of curiosity but finish it out of compulsion."
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     July 2, 2007
     Philadelphia detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano trail another serial killer in Montanari's undistinguished third novel of suspense (after 2006's The Skin Gods). Byrne's chance encounter in a diner with Anton Krotz, a violent thug, ends tragically when a moment of hesitation costs the life of Krotz's innocent female hostage and the woman's grieving husband swears revenge. That threat looms over Byrne as a psychotic murderer begins to amass an alarming body count, mutilating his victims in ways that recall Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tales. Predictably, the killer nearly adds the attractive Balzano to his body count before a cliched last-minute rescue. Montanari deserves credit for hiding the solution in plain sight, an achievement marred by the failure to obscure it with plausible red herrings.

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     July 9, 2007
     Philadelphia detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano trail another serial killer in Montanari's undistinguished third novel of suspense (after 2006's The Skin Gods). Byrne's chance encounter in a diner with Anton Krotz, a violent thug, ends tragically when a moment of hesitation costs the life of Krotz's innocent female hostage and the woman's grieving husband swears revenge. That threat looms over Byrne as a psychotic murderer begins to amass an alarming body count, mutilating his victims in ways that recall Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tales. Predictably, the killer nearly adds the attractive Balzano to his body count before a clichéd last-minute rescue. Montanari deserves credit for hiding the solution in plain sight, an achievement marred by the failure to obscure it with plausible red herrings.

     Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     September 1, 2007
     Philadelphia homicide cops Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano have another weird one on their hands: a serial killer is murdering people according to blueprints laid out in childrens bedtime stories (the dark-edged ones, not the happy-bunny type). And, as if that isnt enough, Byrne seems to have acquired a stalker, the husband of a woman who was murdered in a diner standoff and who blames Byrne for her death. This is another grisly entry in the Byrne-Balzano series, a tightly written story about tightly wound people (both bad guys and good). It starts out as a typical procedural, with the partners following leads and interviewing witnesses and potential suspects, but about halfway through, the tone shifts, and the story takes a right-angle turn into psychological-thriller territory. Fans of the authors previous novels will enjoy catching up with Byrne and Balzano again (they have become one of the more engaging duos in the genre), and newcomers to the series will discover in Montanari a writer who is equally adept at crafting believable characters and intricate plots.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)

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Homicide cops Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano take the lead on the case, uncovering a plethora of eerie clues–each more warped and spine-chilling than the last. Yet the identity of Karen’s pitiless killer remains a mystery. Then the next victim is found upriver at an abandoned waterworks, posed with an unlikely object in her clasped hands. Struggling to link the victims and make sense of the madman’s agenda, Byrne and Balzano follow his twisted trail, which stretches into a past of dark crimes forgotten by all but a few.
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