05218cam a2200829 4500 535453786 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780345490957 0345490959 B000GCFCNM Amazon 6e592844-6c58-462b-a8a2-cdbc232879fb OverDrive (Reserve ID) 116164 116164 116164 85951 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Montanari, Richard. The Skin Gods [Libby] : A Novel of Suspense. Random House Publishing Group, 2006. crime fiction. Investigators. Hard Boiled. crime thriller. Mystery and Suspense. cop. hardboiled. crime. detective. Thrillers. suspense. Detective Fiction. mystery. mystery thriller. crime novel. Thriller. police. detectives. mystery fiction. mystery and thrillers. Law Enforcement. police procedurals. mystery detective. detective novels. thriller books. crime books. mystery books. mystery suspense. mystery thrillers. mystery novels. mystery thriller suspense. suspense books. mystery suspense thriller. suspense crime detective. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 422kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo Man. With the breakneck pacing and intricate plotting of his most recent novel, The Rosary Girls, Richard Montanari established himself as one of the most exciting suspense writers working today. Now he proves himself a virtuoso with The Skin Gods, an explosive new thriller featuring Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. 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 Killer’ s innocent victims–or his growing sense that the evil has not been vanquished. And when he and his partner, Detective Jessica Balzano, are called in on a bizarre case, Byrne’s gravest suspicions are confirmed. A madman, dubbed The Actor by the homicide unit, is meticulously re-creating Hollywood’s most famous–and most gruesome–death scenes. The first murder is caught on film, spliced into a rented VHS edition of the Hitchcock black-and-white masterpiece Psycho. But in place of Janet Leigh is a real-life woman, and this time, the blood is red and the knife is real. Soon, more thrilling classics are turned into terrifying snuff films and placed on video store shelves for an unsuspecting public to find. The key to this horrific puzzle could lie with any of The Skin Gods’ supporting cast: the A-list Hollywood director, the ruthless executive assistant, the convicted mass murderer–or perhaps someone else who has made a sinister art of gruesome violence. Hot on the psychopath’s trail, Balzano and Byrne descend into the mouth of madness and beyond, deep into the depraved underworld of S&M clubs and the porn industry, where the worship of flesh leads to malevolent evil. Before the final credits roll, the investigators will discover that none of The Actor’s victims are as innocent as they appear to be, and that the clue the police need to prevent future murders might be found in Detective Byrne’s own dark past. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-17 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/6E5/928/44/SkinGodsKevinByrneandJessicaBalzanoSe9780345490957.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6E592844-6C58-462B-A8A2-CDBC232879FB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/6E5/928/44/SkinGodsKevinByrneandJessicaBalzanoSe9780345490957.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6E592844-6C58-462B-A8A2-CDBC232879FB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/6E5/928/44/SkinGodsKevinByrneandJessicaBalzanoSe9780345490957.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6E592844-6C58-462B-A8A2-CDBC232879FB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXBVM