The Skin Gods
Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano Series, Book 2
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نقد و بررسی
Philadelphia is being menaced by a serial killer who recreates-and films-classic movie murders, splicing them into VHS tapes and placing them on local video shelves. Montanari knows his movies, and figuring out which movie is being reenacted is as intriguing as Detectives Byrne and Balzano's search for the madman. Scott Brick's deep, ominous tones make the psycho-killer's first-person descriptions of the grisly murders bone-chilling. As the body count rises, so does Brick's intensity. He is especially convincing as the detectives deal with their own personal demons. Montanari's excellent new thriller and Scott Brick's performance make this a special treat for movie fans-and anyone else who loves a mystery that gets the adrenaline pumping. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
November 14, 2005
In this high-body-count chiller from the author of The Rosary Girls
, Philadelphia homicide detectives Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne are up against a savagely inventive serial killer with a yen for stomach-churning cinema verité. Copycat murders modeled on Psycho
, Fatal Attraction
and other movies are terrorizing the city, as the "auteur" slayer splices film of his bloody re-enactments into rental videos surreptitiously stolen from and then returned to video stores. Byrne, recovering from a near-fatal gunshot wound and swallowing Vicodin like candy, is working half time, so it's up to his eager partner, Balzano, to take the lead in the investigation. Montanari's short, punchy chapters propel the convoluted—and kinky—plot, which caroms between the big-budget movie sets of a Philadelphia filmmaker made good and an underground porn industry where good girls go bad. Several potential perpetrators rear their creepy heads, but the real killer comes out of left field—though readers very attentive to scattered clues won't be too taken aback by the gory denouement. Byrne's awkward relationship with his deaf teenage daughter, Colleen, after his divorce, and Balzano's concern for her precocious three-year-old daughter, Sophie, after she boots her philandering husband (and fellow cop) out of the house, add welcome humanity to a grisly, atmospheric thriller.
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