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Merciless (2007)

de Richard Montanari

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:On a frigid December night, Karen sits at the edge of Philadelphiaâ??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 cluesâ??each more warped and spine-chilling than the last. Yet the identity of Karenâ??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 madmanâ??s agenda, Byrne and Balzano follow his twisted trail, which stretches into a past of dark crimes forgotten by all but a few. Siftting through suspects and clues, they unearth a shocking secret history: a legacy of malevolence and cold-blooded retribution dating back twenty years.
This razor sharp and 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. Montanariâ??s terrifying bedtime story will keep yo
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Sehr spannend! ( )
  LadyMine | Dec 24, 2014 |
The third in the Kevin Byrne / Jessica Balzano series; by now I know to expect plenty of hard police work shoring up plot-twists and digressions, and I wasn’t disappointed. In this instalment, people are dying according to some psychopath’s inner need to recreate scenes from fairy tales and fables. This recreation of tableaux is a recurring theme with Montanari, who artfully makes it fresh and distractingly gruesome every time.

Although most of the book (particularly the partnership between Byrne and Balzano) is more sleekly written than the previous two, this time the italicised voice of the perpetrator could have been dropped without a glitch in the atmosphere or story (in the previous two books, this device added a lot of creep). The introduction of a younger (Amish!) detective provided some amusement in the frustratingly-waiting-for-the-leads-to-come-together portion of the book, and this section is so drawn out that it’s almost like a real-time investigation. You don’t know anything until you know everything.

Even more riveting than the primary plot-line, is Byrne’s personal trauma du jour. The man who wants to take him out, and his motives, are beautifully rendered, and timed to perfection. I can’t help but wonder if it was included as a snap at anyone *guilty cough* who felt that the revenge-against-cops scenario had been overused over the last two books, but it works much better as a sub-plot than a relied-upon-motive.

These books were easy to read, enjoyable, hard-working crime fiction. Not my favourite in the genre, but I’m happy to have stumbled across them.

In the ‘random things that amuse me’ category, I note that the cover of my paperback copy (Arrow Books) is hilariously irrelevant to the story, more so even than the generic ‘no one can hear you scream’ on The Skin Gods. Broken Angels (a title that doesn’t exactly get to the heart of the story either, but keeps the three titles tidily religious), has pictures of burning crosses (for a plotline that uses fables and fairy-tales in its murder scenarios) and the tagline ‘Evil preys upon the fallen’. The immediate, unavoidable conclusion, is that they had a unused back-up cover design for The Rosary Girls going spare. And the award for ‘lack of effort in publishing’ goes to… ( )
  eleanor_eader | Aug 31, 2011 |
Villebråd är en av de klart bästa böckerna jag har läst i år. Om ni har planerat att bara läsa en liten stund innan maten, eller i reklampauserna, eller när ni har gått och lagt er på tok för sent så kan ni glömma den tanken här och nu: Richard Montanari kan nämligen det här med att hålla sina läsare precis där han vill ha dem. Oemotståndliga cliffhangers i slutet av VARJE kapitel tillsammans med korta, nätta kapitel är en sådan oslagbar kombination att i alla fall jag faller till föga och förskjuter tanken på att över huvud taget tänka på att göra någonting annat innan boken är utläst.

Villebråd är den tredje boken i serien om Jessica Balzano och Kevin Byrne vid Philadelphiapolisen. När liket av en ung kvinna hittas vid Scuylkillflodens strand kallas de till platsen och det första som slår dem är att hon är iklädd en klänning av gammaldags modell.
Dagarna går och det enda de hittar är den ena makabra ledtråden efter den andra som inte leder dem vidare. Det är först när lik nummer två hittas en bit längre upp längs floden som de inser, att de inte bara har med en seriemördare att göra, utan att de måste skärskåda gamla, olösta fall för att kunna närma sig mördaren innan han hinner slå till igen.
Det ena leder till det andra och sagorna av H. C. Andersen får en helt annan dimension …

Villebråd är en mångbottnad historia som binder samman mängder av brott: Både nutida och sådant som hände för flera år sedan. Det Montanari gör som många andra misslyckas med är att binda ihop flera trådar så att de till sist bildar en logisk enhet. Om jag känner sympati för mördaren så har – i normala fall – författaren fatalt misslyckats med sitt jobb (jmf t.ex., Den sista frestelsen av Val McDermid). Så är inte fallet här. Jag kan mycket väl sätta mig in i varför en av karaktärerna agerade som han gjorde. Däremot kan jag inte alls förstå orsaken bakom sagomördarens avsikter. Vari skillnaden ligger kommer ni att förstå när ni själva har läst boken. För det utgår jag ifrån att ni kommer att göra, eller?
En sista sak när det gäller ovan nämnda sagomördare: Förutom att han är en extremt intressant personlighet som visar han sig som den normalt förhatlige kursiverade mördaren. Hur kan det komma sig? Det finns två anledningar: Avsnitten där han förekommer är extremt korta och för en gångs skull fyller dessa partier en klar och tydlig funktion. Det var nästan så att jag längtade efter att han skulle dyka upp snart igen så att jag skulle få veta ännu lite mer om honom. Jag menar, bara en sådan sak …!

Enda anledningen till att betyget inte riktigt når upp till ett toppbetyg är att intrigen ibland ligger i gränslandet mellan realism och ren och skär fantasi. I vilket fall som helst har jag återigen lyckats hitta en författare som jag vill läsa så mycket mera av. Jag kommer att börja med de två som jag listade i början av den här recensionen (att jag började med bok nummer tre förvånar väl knappast någon av er)? Därefter måste jag nog ta mig an de böcker som ännu ej är översatta till svenska. Jag har dock inte hittat någon konkret information över vad böckerna heter i original och i vilken ordning dessa kommer. Men det kanske t.ex. Kate Reader Diversifierad kan hjälpa till med?! ( )
  annika97 | Dec 31, 2010 |
Title: Merciless/ Broken Angels
Author: Richard Montanari
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
# of pages: 300
Start date:
End date: 5/22
Borrowed/bought: borrowed
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B+

Description of the book: A female victim is found facing the river at an old abandoned building, in an old fashioned dress with her feet and shoes severed off. Byrne and Balzano begin to find more victims in similar situations with their posed bodies and dress similar to fairytales.
Review: Awesome followup! A great storyline with the fairytale twist. Montanari does a great job in describing the people and scenery in Philly. If you enjoy murder mystery/detective series, don't miss out on this series. I hope the author writes more. ( )
  leperdbunny | May 22, 2010 |
A really good cop thriller with classic hard bitten detectives. He makes wonderful use of Philly and its environs to create a memorable whodunnit with all the macabre elements needed to raise the hairs on the back of you neck. For a guy with an Italian name he sure knows the Philly Irish. ( )
  liehtzu | Apr 20, 2010 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:On a frigid December night, Karen sits at the edge of Philadelphiaâ??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 cluesâ??each more warped and spine-chilling than the last. Yet the identity of Karenâ??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 madmanâ??s agenda, Byrne and Balzano follow his twisted trail, which stretches into a past of dark crimes forgotten by all but a few. Siftting through suspects and clues, they unearth a shocking secret history: a legacy of malevolence and cold-blooded retribution dating back twenty years.
This razor sharp and 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. Montanariâ??s terrifying bedtime story will keep yo

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