The Doll Maker (Byrne and Balzano)

by Richard Montanari | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0751549339 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingPlum-crazywing of Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on 6/17/2015
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Journal Entry 1 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, June 17, 2015
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 Balzano: 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.

Journal Entry 2 by wingPlum-crazywing at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, February 28, 2017
The story in brief is children are being killed & their bodies presented in tableaus watched on by hidden dolls. It's up to Byrne & Balzano to decipher the invitation left at the scene (how hard is it to translate a couple of words of french?!) & track down Mr Marseille & his sidekick Anabelle - who would appear to be the perpetrators of these dark deeds - before another child is killed.

Now recently I've been bemoaning the fact that some of the crime novels I've been reading are not very credible & you would think that this unlikely scenario would fall into that category. But there was no eye rolling at events here (however unlikely!) as I was totally engrossed from start to finish. Maybe that's because as a fan I knew what to expect eg: killers with twisted ways of presenting their victims, a gripping story line & two good lead characters,....& Montanari certainly delivered.

Definitely one of those I'll just read ONE more chapter- type books that has you up into the wee hours :o)




Journal Entry 3 by wingPlum-crazywing at Matalan in Halifax, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Released 7 yrs ago (3/1/2017 UTC) at Matalan in Halifax, West Yorkshire United Kingdom

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