Shutter Man
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4.4 • 8 Ratings
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- $13.99
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Publisher Description
Plagued with a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing faces, Billy carries a photograph in his pocket that is his only way of identifying his next target. Killing is in Billy's bloodline, as a member of Philadelphia's dangerous Farren crime family.
While Billy stalks Philadelphia, Detective Kevin Byrne is assigned to a series of bizarre home-invasion cases and is joined by his former partner-turned-assistant district attorney, Jessica Balzano. Their investigations circle Byrne's childhood neighborhood of Devil's Pocket, and they find themselves revisiting a crime from Byrne's past that has haunted him for decades. What Byrne witnessed as a child in Devil's Pocket jeopardizes the Farren family -- which makes him the next target on Billy's hit list. A multigenerational story of hardship, guilt, and redemption, Shutter Man is Byrne and Balzano's most tense and personal case to date.
One of The New York Times's 10 Best Crime Novels of 2016
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In Montanari's exceptional ninth procedural featuring Det. Kevin Byrne and ADA Jessica Balzano (after 2015's The Doll Maker), Kevin investigates a series of odd, violent home invasions scattered throughout Philadelphia. While the victims appear to have little connection, clues prove these murders aren't random. The reader knows that the killer is Michael Farren, a member of an Irish crime family with a vendetta to enforce. Michael, who calls himself Billy the Wolf, has an unusual handicap: he suffers from face blindness, which makes it impossible for him to recognize people by their faces. The murders turn out to echo a decades-old crime committed in the Devil's Pocket neighborhood during Kevin's childhood there. Montanari takes care to show the humanity in each character, even in the criminals. As Kevin's investigation intensifies, the brisk plot quickly becomes an engrossing story of a neighborhood's residents those who escape, those who stay, and those who are buried there.
