The Mystery Book Group which meets the 4th Sunday of every month at 5 pm
EST, 4 pm CST, and 2 pm PST in the Book Nook Room of accessibleworld.org
will be discussing The rosary girls: a novel DB 59662 by Richard Montanari
on August 23rd, 2015.
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rosary girls: a novel DB59662
Montanari, Richard. Reading time: 13 hours, 30 minutes.
Read by Scott Brick.
Suspense Fiction
Veteran Philadelphia cop Kevin Byrne and rookie partner Jessica Balzano
investigate a serial killer who targets Catholic schoolgirls, leaving a
rosary with each corpse. Byrne, who uses unorthodox methods to solve crimes,
is hounded by a reporter while Jessica takes up boxing. Violence and strong
language. Commercial audiobook. 2005.
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rosary girls: a novel
Here is the long synopsis from Bookshare.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo
Man.In his sleek, visceral novels Deviant Way, Kiss of Evil, and The Violet
Hour, Richard Montanari slammed into the suspense field like a force of
nature. Now Montanari has written an astounding novel that pits two besieged
detectives against a fiercely intelligent serial killer. Sprawling beneath
the statue of William Penn, Philadelphia is a city of downtrodden crack
houses and upscale brownstones. Somewhere in this concrete crazy quilt, one
teenage Catholic girl is writing in her diary, another is pouring her heart
out to a friend, and yet another is praying. And somewhere in this city is a
man who wants these young women to make his macabre fantasy become reality.
In a passion play of his own, he will take the girls-and a whole city-over
the edge. Kevin Byrne is a veteran cop who already knows that edge: He's
been living on it far too long. His marriage failing, his former partner
wasting away in a hospital, and his heart lost to mad fury, Byrne loves to
take risks and is breaking every rule in the book. And now he has been given
a rookie partner. Jessica Balzano, the daughter of a famous Philly cop,
doesn't want Byrne's help. But they will need each other desperately, since
they've just caught the case of a lifetime: Someone is killing devout young
women, bolting their hands together in prayer, and committing an abomination
upon their otherwise perfect bodies. Byrne and Balzano spearhead the hunt
for the serial killer, who leads them on a methodically planned journey.
Suspects appear before them like bad dreams-and vanish just as quickly. And
while Byrne's sins begin to catch up with him, and Balzano tries to solve
the blood-splattered puzzle, the body count rises. Meanwhile, the calendar
is approaching Easter and the day of the resurrection. When the last rosary
is counted, a madman's methods will be revealed, and the final crime will be
the one that hurts the most. Relentlessly paced and vividly told, The Rosary
Girls is a smart, emotionally complex, fiercely gripping thriller from an
author who takes chances, breaks new ground, and leaves readers haunted and
moved long after the last page is turned.
Gideon Pratt. Both photographs were of fully clothed, suggestively posed
teenaged black girls. The one ... in her hands. The rosary. Time passed. Her
mind swam away again. She opened her eyes once more as he ... happens at
different times with different girls--sometimes at a mere twelve or
thirteen, sometimes not ...
Copyright: 2005
Please join us for this discussion. All are welcome and the more
participants, the livelier the discussion.
Ann Parsons is the usual moderator of this group but will be off in August
so I will facilitate.
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Alan Lemly
