Broken Angels is the third novel from Richard Montanari and, after Play Dead (reviewed recently) was something I almost didn't pick up. As it was, I already had this on my TBR so thought I may as well give it a go. The end result...well, while this was better than Play Dead, its ending was truly disappointing and far too overly complex and convoluted! The book begins when Detective Kevin Bryne is involved in an incident in a diner where an innocent women is killed in front of her husband. This man holds Byrne responsible and so begins a vendetta to bear against the person he thinks murdered his wife. Meanwhile Byrne and Balzano are called out to a Homicide on ...  Read the complete review

Seeing as I get most of my books from the Oxfam bookshop, I tend to read quite a lot of books from authors who I hadn't previously heard about. I picked this book because the blurb sounded good and there were some good comments inside. The Author: Richard Montanari is from Ohio in the USA who initially tried to make it as a musician however this dream failed and he took up writing instead. As well as individual novels, he has two series of books- the Jack Paris series and the Byrne and Balzano series, of which this is one of. Other novels in this series are The Rosary Girls (2005), The Skin Gods (2006) and Play Dead (2008). Broken Angels was ...  Read the complete review

Broken Angels by Richard Montanari is in essence a serial killer thriller. Perched on a stone pier, as if she were sat at watching the river ebb and flow. She was wearing nothing but a long pink dress from a different age entirely. The victim had clearly been posed and much to the shocking, grim discovery of Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne, the murder detectives on the case, she had had both of her feet amputated. Balzano and Byrne start investigating the murder, identify the victim, interviewing her friends. They are treating this a a single murder until another body rocks up, this too, close to the riverbank and posed and dressed in a bizarre ...  Read the complete review