Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
On a frigid December night, Karen sits at the edge of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River, dressed in a flowing gown, like a visitor from the distant past. A beautiful and shining young woman, she gazes up at a bone-white winter moon like a fairy-tale princess frozen in time. At first glance, one might not even notice that she is dead, coated in a glistening patina of ice.
Homicide cops Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano take the lead on the case, uncovering a plethora of eerie clues–each more warped and spine-chilling than the last. Yet the identity of Karen’s pitiless killer remains a mystery. Then the next victim is found upriver at an abandoned waterworks, posed with an unlikely object in her clasped hands. Struggling to link the victims and make sense of the madman’s agenda, Byrne and Balzano follow his twisted trail, which stretches into a past of dark crimes forgotten by all but a few.
Now the past roars back into the present with a vengeance as the ingenious killer unleashes a torrent of rage upon the streets of Philadelphia. As Byrne and Balzano sift through suspects and clues, they unearth a shocking secret history: a legacy of malevolence and cold-blooded retribution dating back twenty years. And the farther they make their way up the body-strewn banks of the Schuylkill River, the closer they get to a villain from their worst nightmare, an evil as patient as it is merciless.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Merciless: a novel of suspense
2008, Ballantine Books, Random House Publishing Group
in English
- Ballantine Books mass mkt. ed.
0345492412 9780345492418
|
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Merciless: a novel of suspense
2008, Ballantine Books
in English
- Ballantine Books mass mkt. ed.
0345492412 9780345492418
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?June 17, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
August 28, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
April 16, 2020 | Edited by Mike Pace | Description |
March 2, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove fake subjects |
May 9, 2011 | Created by ImportBot | initial import |