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Start with The Rosary Girls and continue through all 10 books in the listed reading order.
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Book 1 by Richard Montanari • Published 2005
Philadelphia detective Kevin Byrne is paired with rookie Jessica Balzano when devout Catholic schoolgirls begin turning up murdered, their hands bolted in prayer. Racing toward Easter, the partners chase a fanatic kil...
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Ends with Shutter Man
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Book 1:The Rosary Girls
Richard Montanari • 2005
Philadelphia detective Kevin Byrne is paired with rookie Jessica Balzano when devout Catholic schoolgirls begin turning up murdered, their hands bolted in prayer. Racing toward Easter, the partners chase a fanatic kil...
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Book 2:The Skin Gods
Richard Montanari • 2006
A killer dubbed The Actor is recreating famous movie scenes, splicing real murders into rental videos around Philadelphia. As the bodies mount, Byrne and Balzano descend into a world of underground filmmaking, pornogr...
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Book 3:Broken Angels / Merciless
Richard Montanari • 2007
Young women are discovered frozen beside the Schuylkill River, posed like storybook heroines. Tackling a trail of eerie clues, Byrne and Balzano trace the killings back to buried crimes and a vengeful enemy who has wa...
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Book 4:Play Dead / Badlands
Richard Montanari • 2008
A teenage runaway is found drowned in a Philadelphia basement, and months later a chilling confession pulls Byrne and Balzano back into the Badlands. As bodies surface, they uncover a killer using the city itself as a...
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Book 5:The Echo Man
Richard Montanari • 2011
A sadistic killer orchestrates murders that precisely echo unsolved Philadelphia cases, down to the crime scene photographs. While Jessica Balzano juggles fresh bodies, Kevin Byrne follows haunting musical clues that...
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Book 6:The Killing Room
Richard Montanari • 2012
In an abandoned Philadelphia church turned slaughterhouse, Byrne and Balzano uncover a string of ritualistic murders staged in eerie, sacred spaces. Each new body reveals a meticulous mastermind who always seems one s...
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Book 7:The Stolen Ones
Richard Montanari • 2013
Byrne and Balzano investigate the murder of a solitary man whose past leads to Cold River, a shuttered psychiatric hospital notorious for dream based memory experiments. As copycat killings mount, an Estonian serial k...
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Book 8:The Doll Maker
Richard Montanari • 2014
In a quiet Philadelphia suburb, children are found murdered and artfully posed with porcelain dolls and invitations to a mysterious tea dance. Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano hunt the urbane killer who call...
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Book 9:A Christmas Killing
Richard Montanari • 2014
In this prequel short, rookie detective Kevin Byrne spends Christmas Eve 1988 chasing a brutal predator through Philadelphia's Devil's Pocket. With his veteran partner sidelined, Byrne faces a formative case that fore...
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Book 10:Shutter Man
Richard Montanari • 2015
Detective Kevin Byrne investigates a string of brutal home invasions where families are slaughtered and the killer removes their faces. As connections emerge to Byrne's childhood in Devil's Pocket, he and Jessica Balz...
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Jessica Balzano Kevin Byrne FAQ
What is the best order to read the Jessica Balzano Kevin Byrne series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with The Rosary Girls.
How many books are in the Jessica Balzano Kevin Byrne series?
There are 10 books currently listed in the Jessica Balzano Kevin Byrne series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Jessica Balzano Kevin Byrne series?
New readers should start with The Rosary Girls, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Jessica Balzano Kevin Byrne series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 2005 to 2015.