Shutter Man, Richard Montanari
Shutter Man, Richard Montanari
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Shutter Man

Author: Richard Montanari

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/09/2016

Synopsis

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

About Richard Montanari

A novelist, screenwriter, and essayist, Richard Montanari's work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and scores of other national and regional publications. He is the OLMA-winning author of the internationally acclaimed thrillers Deviant Way and The Violet Hour that have now been published in more than twenty countries. Montanari currently makes his home in Cleveland, Ohio, where he is slavish only to the high arts of boxing, Italian food, and independent film.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mort on June 10, 2018

Before I tell you about this book, I have to scold myself: Whenever somebody asks me about great crime writers, I always tell them about Karin Slaughter, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, Thomas Harris, Chris Mooney, Robert Crais, etc. This is the ?fourth book I’ve read by Richard Montanari, and I hav......more

Goodreads review by Linda on November 05, 2015

Seemingly random people are being killed. They are tied to a chair, duct taped, shot in the chest or the head, and then some of them have their faces removed. All are wearing a strange assortment of clothes and birth certificates are stolen. Billy and Sean are twin brothers, member of a mafia-type cr......more

Goodreads review by Carol - Reading Writing and Riesling on February 10, 2016

My View: Richard Montanari writes with confidence and ease. The plot is complex, his characters are interesting and I love the blending of multigenerational stories/crimes and history. Philadelphia 1940’s is an alien world for me - I loved being transported into this timeline, meeting the people, hea......more

Goodreads review by Liz on September 06, 2015

I'm a fan of this series so it came as little surprise to me that I really enjoyed this one - I do love my crime fiction and Richard Montanari is particularly good in this field. This instalment gives us some great Byrne back story, taking as it's main part the Farren family, who Byrne has been invol......more

Quotes

One of the New York Times Book Review's Best Crime Novels of 2016

"There's a lot of flawed humanity in Devil's Pocket. . . . Richard Montanari's elegiac tone takes the curse off Shutter Man, a blood-drenched thriller about a group of imperfectly domesticated boys who came from the same blighted neighborhood and grew up to become criminals and killers-and cops. . . . Pay special mind to Detective Kevin Byrne, the ethically conflicted hero of Montanari's gripping police procedurals."—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

"A bit like Memento for Philadelphia"—Keri Blakinger, New York Daily News

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