Great book!! Great story!!! The plotline was absolutely addicting. that's my whole review! Doesn't get much simpler than that. This is the first Balzano/Byrne book I've read, not to mention Mr. Montanari. Did not realize when I picked it up at the library that it was the 4th go round for these de...
"Badlands" by Richard Montanari is the fourth installment featuring the detective team of Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. "Badlands" refers to the portion of the city, north Philadelphia, which has been a blight for decades. Byrne and Balzano catch the case of teenage runaways girls who turn up ...
This hasn't been my favourite of the series enough it had its moments. If 1/2 stars were possible it would score at 3.5.Part of the difficulty is the final denouncement did, as others have commented, a certain Scooby-Doo feel to its final pages which let down the build-up. Still I am very fond of...
The Killing Room is Richard Montanari's 7th Byrne & Balzano murder mystery with several brutal killings discovered in various abandoned churches around Philadelphia. There are many plots and subplots running concurrently through the book which feels a little disconnected, but in true Montanari st...
Richard Montanari, Rosary Girls (Ballantine, 2005)I always approach a new (well, new-to-me) ongoing mystery series with trepidation. Not because I fear I'll hate it. In fact, I have a lot fewer problems with those I hate, since I can just abandon them. But, you see, I'm a reader of George R. R. M...
The blurb:The streets of Philadelphia are blistering in the summer heat, the homicide rate is soaring and the nights belong to the mad. Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are prowling the streets with a growing sense of unease. Where next will evil rear its ugly head?When a series of seem...