The Doll Maker
Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children.
A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time.
Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings. At the scene is an identical invitation. This time, though, there is something extra waiting for Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica a delicate porcelain doll.
It's a message. And a threat. With the killers at large, Detectives Byrne and Balzano have just seven more days to find the link between the murders before another innocent child is snatched from the streets.
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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.
