The Skin Gods - Richard Montanari Reviews

The Skin Gods is written by Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Montanari, who is also the author of the bestselling thriller 'The Rosary Girls.' The main characters in the book are Detective Kevin Byrne & Detective Jessica Balzano. When a video of Alfred Hitchcock's legendary horror film psycho is taken to the ...  Read the complete review

In the heat of Philadelphia, a violent murder has taken place. A beautiful young woman is violently slashed to death in a motel bathroom. But this is no straight-forward murder. It comes to the attention of the Philadelphia Police Department by way of a rented movie. Hitchcock's horror movie Psycho has a slight differentiation - in the scene ...  Read the complete review

When I read, I tend to not be very adventurous. I normally stick with an author I know or have heard of before. Recently, I have ventured further afield, and while I have kept within the lines of a crime thriller, my favourite genre, I have explored different authors, and the latest of these is Richard Montanari. His novel, The Skin Gods, is set ...  Read the complete review

As hubby is out on the road most of the week, living in his lorry as he tramps goods from one place to another, he gets a lot of time on his hands. Sitting in queues waiting to be loaded, waiting in queues to be unloaded, sitting at truck stops waiting for changeovers, and all that jazz means sitting in one spot, with nothing to do but just SIT. ...  Read the complete review

I hadn't read for ages, despite being a very enthusiastic reader when I was younger. I thought it was definitely time to get back into it, and this book was what I chose to start with. Despite initially being unimpressed, as the book progressed it just got better and better. The story focuses on two detectives who look into the murder ...  Read the complete review

I’ve wanted to read The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari since first reading a brief synopsis a few months ago, and now I’ve read it I’m so glad I did. The basic premise of the story is that someone is terrorising Philadelphia; a madman is committing murders based on famous murder scenes in movies, he’s filming the murders and splicing ...  Read the complete review