Richard Montanari Livres

Celle dont il est question ici date d'un jour de 1995 où deux petites filles sont entrées dans le bois de Fairmount Park et n'en sont jamais ressorties. Dix ans plus tard, c'est l'hiver, la saison froide, venteuse, et les ténèbres sont tombées sur Philadelphie, que la proximité de Noël rend plus sinistre encore. Le corps amputé d'une jeune femme, habillée d'une robe ancienne, est retrouvé sur les berges de la rivière Schuylkill. Quel est le rapport entre ces deux affaires ?. L'enquête de Byrne et Balzano va les conduire dans les lieux les plus désolés de la ville, sur les traces d'un tueur terrifiant, hanté par des contes de fées, dont l'identité restera une énigme jusqu'à la fin.

Kevin Byrne est un vétéran de la police criminelle de Philadelphie. Flic usé par ses années de service, il vient juste de faire connaissance avec sa nouvelle équipière, Jessica Balzano, lorsqu'une adolescente fréquentant une école catholique de la ville est retrouvée violée et mutilée, les mains jointes dans un geste de prière. La première d'une longue série. C'est le début d'un voyage au cœur des ténèbres pour les deux enquêteurs qui, lancés sur la piste d'un tueur aussi terrifiant que machiavélique, devront affronter leurs propres démons, alors que la ville est prête à basculer dans la folie.

Dans un motel, une jeune femme se délasse sous la douche. Emergeant de la vapeur, une main écarte le rideau en plastique. Une autre brandit un couteau de boucher. L'inconnue hurle d'effroi. Insensible, l'assassin abat encore et encore le bras. Bientôt une spirale sanglante se forme autour de la bonde... Cette scène de Psychose d'Alfred Hitchcock, l'inspecteur Byrne et sa coéquipière Jessica Balzano la croyaient réservée au panthéon du cinéma. Mais voilà qu'un détraqué l'a reproduite. Et filmée. Pour de vrai. Et s'ils ne l'arrêtent pas très vite, le tueur cinéphile risque de transformer Philadelphie en Hollywood macabre car pendant que les pistes se multiplient, la caméra continue de tourner...

The terrifying new Byrne and Balzano case from the author of The Killing Room and The Stolen Ones.

Destroyed by fire years ago, the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for the criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks Philadelphia's backstreets; by day he roams the catacombs beneath the city. Luther is everywhere and nowhere; he's is in your dreams - and your nightmares. Then Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are called to a bizarre murder scene: a man has been killed by a railroad spike driven into his head. But this is just the beginning of a trail of evil that will lead Byrne and Balzano back to the hospital, to a missing girl and to a horror they could never have imagined ...

Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano's first assignment from the Cold Case files is a gruesome murder of a young girl in the Philadelphia Badlands, a bleak and desolate area of crime and depravity. Carefully posed, the lifeless girl is perfectly framed in a square window.Soon another Badlands runaway is found viciously murdered, this time arranged on the roof of a building shaped like a triangle.As the victims add up, each body tells an increasingly grisly story. A seemingly unrelated crime scene leads Byrne and Balzano to an eccentric older woman who introduces them to a Tangram puzzle, an ancient code of shapes.When the woman takes her own life, she leaves behind a cryptic clue, a word composed of four worn Scrabble tiles: LUDO, the Latin word for game. There is a foul breath of evil blowing through these murderous geometric puzzles and as more runaways vanish and more shapes are revealed, Byrne and Balzano soon realize that the homicidal mastermind plans to complete all seven forms of his dark and twisted Tangram puzzle.Unless they can stop him first?

Packed with ingenious twists and relentless excitement, and starring two of the most compelling heroes in crime fiction, The Killing Room is a major thriller event: the best novel yet from one of the world's best suspense writers

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?

It is fall in Philadelphia and the mutilated body of a man has been found in one of the poorest neighbourhoods. When homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano investigate, they soon realise that their crime scene is linked to an unsolved case. Eight years ago, another body was found in the same position, killed in the same manner. Apart from this killer's unusual calling cards, the crime scene photos are identical. As another body appears, then another, it becomes horrifyingly clear that someone is recreating unsolved murders from Philadelphia's past. And the killer is closer than they think ...

Michael Roman is finally living the peaceful life he has so long desired. But his idyllic life in upstate New York is about to come crashing down around him because Michael is a man with a past. Three years ago, when working for the New York District Attorney, Michael's successful life was shattered when he was viciously attacked and left for dead. After a painful recuperation, he pieced together his ruined life, married and adopted twin girls. But under suspicion for a crime he did not commit, his world is about to be devastated all over again and this time, Michael's life is not the only one at risk. He must find the psychopath who is targeting his family or he and his girls will be the next victims. In a desperate fight for the truth and survival, Michael must confront the life he left behind in order to save his family from a depraved madman who will stop at nothing.