Shutter Man
A Philadelphia homicide detective becomes a hitman's target in this "exceptional" gritty crime thriller (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Plagued with a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing faces, Billy carries a photograph in his pocket that is his only way of identifying his next target. Killing is in Billy's bloodline, as a member of Philadelphia's dangerous Farren crime family.
While Billy stalks Philadelphia, Detective Kevin Byrne is assigned to a series of bizarre home-invasion cases and is joined by his former partner-turned-assistant district attorney, Jessica Balzano. Their investigations circle Byrne's childhood neighborhood of Devil's Pocket, and they find themselves revisiting a crime from Byrne's past that has haunted him for decades. What Byrne witnessed as a child in Devil's Pocket jeopardizes the Farren family—which makes him the next target on Billy's hit list. A multigenerational story of hardship, guilt, and redemption, Shutter Man is Byrne and Balzano's most tense and personal case to date.
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Richard Montanari
Author Richard Montanari was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a traditional Italian-American family. Montanari got through school, without doing much to thrill anyone, but after would travel Europe, seeing quite a bit of the country. He lived in London and sold clothing in Chelsea and foreign language encyclopedias that he had to go door-to-door to sell. He sold more a little more ties than books and would come back to America and join the construction firm that his family owned.
Jessica Balzano & Kevin Byrne
Jessica Balzano & Kevin Byrne consists of nine primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
