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Ballantine
August 2007
On Sale: July 31, 2007
448 pages
ISBN: 0345470982
EAN: 9780345470980
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
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Thriller | Mystery
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.
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