Play Dead
In each soul, a secret ...
Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano's first assignment from the Cold Case files is the brutal murder of a young runaway. The lifeless body of Caitlin O'Riordan was found carefully posed in a glass display case in the desolate Philadelphia Badlands but, as Byrne and Balzano rapidly discover, she was just the first pawn in the killer's twisted game ...
A mysterious phone call leads them on a scavenger hunt for a second victim. This time a young girl has been dismembered, her body parts left in three boxes in the basement of a deserted house. More clues lead to other victims and, as the body count rises, it becomes clear that there is a serial killer on the loose, hell-bent on completing the 'performance' of a lifetime.
As more runaways vanish, Byrne and Balzano come to realize that the homicidal mastermind plans to complete seven depraved tricks in his dark and dangerous magic act. With Balzano increasingly obsessed by a case that haunts her, and Byrne struggling with a loss of his own, the stakes are mounting. But this is one game they can't afford to lose ...
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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.
