Richard Montanari

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1995
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Balzano and Byrne

1 - The Rosary Girls (Feb-2005)
2 - The Skin Gods (Mar-2006)
3 - Merciless (Aug-2007)
4 - Badlands (Sep-2008)
5 - The Echo Man (Mar-2011)
6 - The Killing Room (Feb-2012)
7 - The Stolen Ones (Feb-2014)
7.5 - A Christmas Killing (Nov-2014)
8 - The Doll Maker (May-2015)
9 - Shutter Man (Feb-2016)

Jack Paris

1 - Deviant Way (Jul-1995)
2 - Kiss of Evil (Apr-2001)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Deviant Way

    Jack Paris - 1

    Something has come over Andrea Heller. After seven years of marriage to her voyeur husband, Matt, it seems she has a few ideas of her own. Like calling herself Abigail. And dressing a little sexier. And sitting on the other side of the bar, pretendin...

  • The Violet Hour

  • Kiss of Evil

    Jack Paris - 2

    Police officer Mike Ryan was murdered with his own gun. A beautiful suspect walked away free after tainting his reputation with allegations of greed and corruption--only to perish herself in a fiery apparent suicide. For two years Cleveland Homicide ...

  • The Rosary Girls

    Balzano and Byrne - 1

    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...

  • The Skin Gods

    Balzano and Byrne - 2

    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 ...

  • Merciless

    Balzano and Byrne - 3

    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 pr...

  • Broken Angels

    When the first body is found, mutilated and strangled on the riverbanks, Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano suspect yet another case of random urban violence. Then it happens again. And again. Carefully dressed and posed...

  • Badlands

    Balzano and Byrne - 4

    Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are working a new beat: the Special Investigations Unit, aka the cold case squad. Ironic, given that it's the height of a blazing hot August. But even these hardened homicide veterans are...

  • The Devil's Garden

    Michael Roman is finally living the life he always dreamed of ââ,¬â€œ he has a successful career, a beautiful wife and adorable twin daughters. But his idyllic life is about to come crashing down around him ââ,¬â€œ because Michael is a man with a p...



  • The Echo Man

    Balzano and Byrne - 5

    Tormented by the exquisite beauty of a concerto and the bloodcurdling cries of a dying woman, the Echo Man composes his own symphony in response: a string of artfully staged slayings -- all of them linked to cold murder cases and designed to taunt th...

  • The Killing Room

    Balzano and Byrne - 6

    In the heart of Philadelphia, Detectives Byrne and Balzano are faced with a particularly horrific case that has ominous echoes of an earlier one for Byrne. Someone is murdering seemingly random people and leaving their bodies in deconsecrated churche...

  • The Stolen Ones

    Balzano and Byrne - 7

    In Richard Montanari's chilling new suspense novel, a sealed-off network of secret passages connects all of Philadelphia to the killer hidden within. Luther Wade grew up in Cold River, a warehouse for the criminally insane. Two decades ago the hos...

  • A Christmas Killing

    Balzano and Byrne - 7.5

    Meet Detective Kevin Byrne, rising star of the Philadelphia police force. Christmas Eve, 1988: Partnered with streetwise veteran Frankie Sheehan, Byrne is called to investigate the brutal assault of a young woman in a crime-ridden neighborhood, The D...

  • The Doll Maker

    Balzano and Byrne - 8

    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 ...

  • Shutter Man

    Balzano and Byrne - 9

    Billy is an excellent killer: strategic, methodical, ritualistic. If only he knew what his victims looked like. Plagued with a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing faces, Billy carries a photograph in his pocket that is his only way of ...

  • The Buried Girl

    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 bestsel...

  • Don't Look Now

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Montanari has published 17 books.

Richard Montanari does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Don't Look Now, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Richard Montanari, Deviant Way, was published in July 1995.

Yes. Richard Montanari has 2 series.
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