Badlands: A Novel of Suspense (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345492432)

A teenage runaway's body is found in the basement of a rancid tenement building in the desolate, dangerous North Philly district dubbed the Badlands. The inexplicable cause of death: drowning. Months later, this dormant homicide case stirs back to life. A confession to the bizarre murder sends Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano rushing to make an arrest. But what they find will chill these hardened veterans to the bone. As the body count grows, a terrifying design literally takes shape. Pieces of a gruesome puzzle are being set into place by a madman using the city as his game board. His playthings are the innocent, and his opponents-and pawns-are Byrne and Balzano, who must, before time runs out, decipher the truth about a shadowy house of horrors and its elusive master.

Author: Richard Montanari
ISBN-10: 0345492439
ISBN-13: 9780345492432
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2009
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.86h x 4.28w x 1.11d