Richard Montanari books in order

The lifeless body of Johnny Angel is discovered viciously murdered. In his arm is a needle full of heroin. In his bed is a dead prostitute.

What makes the crime even more shocking is the fact that Johnny Angel is a priest.

The lifeless body of Dr Bennett Marc Crane, one of the most renowned plastic surgeons, is the next to be discovered—killed in a similar manner.

Is this the work of a serial killer?

When the evidence of a crime that had been buried for two decades surfaces, journalist Nicky Stella endeavors to uncover the mystery, knowing that is the kind of story that could land him a cover article.

An accomplished career, a stunning wife and lovely twin daughters: Michael Roman is finally living the dream life.

His entire world is however about to be turned on its head, as Michael is a man with a past.

A man who is increasingly becoming a force to be reckoned with in the New York District Attorney's office, Michael's life takes a turn for the worst when he becomes the target of a psychopath who covets everything he has.

Forced to come face-to-face with his dark past, Michael must hunt down the depraved madman before he loses everything that is dear to him.

NB: This book is also known as Deathless.

An accomplished career, a stunning wife and lovely twin daughters: Michael Roman is finally living the dream life.

His entire world is however about to be turned on its head, as Michael is a man with a past.

A man who is increasingly becoming a force to be reckoned with in the New York District Attorney's office, Michael's life takes a turn for the worst when he becomes the target of a psychopath who covets everything he has.

Forced to come face-to-face with his dark past, Michael must hunt down the depraved madman before he loses everything that is dear to him

NB: This book is also known as The Devil's Garden.

A beautiful family, a thriving career, and a bestselling book: New York psychologist Will Hardy seems to be living the perfect life, until it all burns down to the ground.

Left with nothing, Will and his fifteen-year-old daughter Bernadette move to the tiny town of Abbeville, Ohio.

Abbeville Chief of Police Ivy Holgrave is looking into the death of a local girl, hoping that it could also solve the case of her own long-missing sister.

How is Will's new home linked to the missing girls?

And how are the killings connected to a diary written over a century earlier?

“God Help Them.”

A group of young Catholic women are discovered dead in the most horrifying killing crusade that Philadelphia has seen in years.

Disfigured, their hands are bolted together, with each one of the victims holding a rosary in their lifeless grips.

Enlisted to unravel the mystery are veteran cop Kevin Byrne and his rookie partner Jessica Balzano.

As they launch their investigations, the evasive killer plunges them deeper and deeper into the abyss of a deranged man’s perversion.

With the number of victims rapidly increasing as Easter approaches, will Byrne and Balzano be able to apprehend the killer before it’s too late?

Back on the force after apprehending the deranged Rosary Killer, Detective Kevin Byrne and his partner Detective Jessica Balzano are soon called in to investigate an unusual crime in the sweltering summer heat.

Dubbed The Actor, the serial killer is painstakingly re-enacting some of the most famous and most sickening death scenes in Hollywood.

When more classics are turned into horrifying films and placed on the shelves of video stores for the unsuspecting public, Balzano and Byrne know that they have to act fast if they are to catch the psychopath.

And they key to solving the mystery could lie in the supporting cast of The Skin Gods.

It’s a cold December night in the City of Brotherly Love. Karen, who is clothed in a flowing gown as though a visitor from the past, sits at the edge of the Schuylkill River—except she’s dead.

When Homicide Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are assigned the case, they begin unraveling a series of strange clues, each more sinister than the last.

When the lifeless body of another victim is discovered upriver at an abandoned waterworks, the detectives struggle to find a motive in the murders.

But as Byrne and Balzano undertake more investigations, they uncover a terrifying heritage of ruthless vengeance dating back two dates.

NB: This book is also known as Broken Angels.

The dead body of a runaway teenager is discovered in the basement of an old building in the dangerous and uninhabited North Philly district, infamously known as the Badlands.

Although the cause of death is surprisingly deemed as drowning, the case resurfaces months later after a shocking confession.

Rushing to make an arrest, Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano make an unexpected discovery that will terrify even these seasoned cops.

A deranged killer is using the city as his game board, and innocent civilians are his pawns.

Will Byrne and Balzano stop the killer before more lives are lost?

NB: This book is also known as Play Dead.

It is Fall in the City of Brotherly Love.

The lifeless body of a man is discovered in one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in the city.

Although the crime certainly looks like the work of a killer, Homicide Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano can't help but sense a familiar feel.

Eight years ago, a corpse was discovered in the same place, in the very same position—killed in the same way.

Furthermore, even the crime-scene photos are unmistakably similar.

It seems like a copycat killer is on the loose and Byrne and Balzano have to arrest the killer before it’s too late.

Homicide Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are summoned to investigate a crime committed in the heart of Philadelphia’s badland.

Once a place that brought people together in the neighborhood, a deserted church has now become a killing room.

Although the crime looks like an isolated act of violence at first, things get more intriguing when more bodies are discovered, with each murder being more brutal than the last.

A psychopath who doesn’t seem to leave any clues behind is on the loose, and Byrne and Balzano have to step up to the challenge before more blood is shed.

Luther Wade was raised in Cold River, a warehouse for the criminally insane.

When the hospital however shut down twenty years ago, Luther never left.

Instead, he wanders the catacombs beneath the city, channeling the violent dreams of Eduard Kross, the most brutal serial killer of 20th century Europe.

Homicide Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano cross paths with a two-year-old girl in the middle of the night in the streets of Philadelphia.

Although she doesn’t speak, she could very well help solve a series of vicious killings committed in and around Priory Park.

As a woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter in a quiet Philadelphia suburb, she discovers the lifeless body of a girl posing on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance set to take place in a week's time.

A week later, two young victims are found posing on painted swings of a deserted house. The scene also has a similar invitation.

But unlike the previous crime, a delicate porcelain doll will be waiting for Homicide Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano.

Could this be a coded message or a threat?

Byrne and Balzano only have a week to solve the mystery before another innocent child is lost.

It’s Christmas Eve of 1988.

Detective Kevin Byrne is fast becoming a force to be reckoned with in the Philadelphia police force.

Partnered with streetwise veteran Frankie Sheehan, Byrne is summoned to investigate the vicious assault of a young woman in The Devil's Pocket—a neighborhood plagued by crime.

As the rest of the city is immersed in the holiday celebrations, rookie Byrne must go out of his way if he is to catch a ruthless killer.

Billy has a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing people’s faces.

That however doesn’t prevent him from being a ruthless killer.

A member of the feared Farren crime family, killing is inbred to him.

And the only way he identifies his next victim is by using the photograph that he carries in his pocket.

Assigned a number of puzzling home invasion cases, Homicide Detective Kevin Byrne notices an eerie trend—the attacks are everything but random.

Partnering with District Attorney Jessica Balzano, Byrne is forced to confront a crime from his past; one that has troubled him for decades.

Could he be Billy’s next target?

Andrea Heller likes pretending like she's single, despite being married for seven years.

She loves sitting alone in bars, as she watches what happens.

However, another couple—called Saila and Pharaoh—also watches.

They only do it after sundown, and frightening things happen after sundown in the singles clubs in Cleveland.

With three women in their twenties now murdered over the last six months, Homicide Detective Jack knows that to entering the mind of Saila and Pharaoh could very well mean entering a world of no return.

NB: This book is also known as Don't Look Now.

Everyone in Cleveland is preparing for Christmas.

But for Detective Jack Paris, the search for a deranged killer has only just begun.

An accused murderer is released on a technicality, only to be found dead on what looks like suicide.

A devastating string of killings then takes place.

The deranged serial killer tortures his seemingly random victims in the most vicious of ways, before carving a mysterious symbol into their flesh.

Facing what could very well be his most challenging case yet, Jack finds himself questioning his loyalties, making a tough choice, and facing the barrel of a gun with the entire world watching.