Reviews for The Rosary Girls

The average rating for The Rosary Girls based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-30 00:00:00 Lloyd Middlestead Im thinking a 4-5 for this book.WOW!Sprawling beneath the statue of William Penn, Philadelphia is a city of downtrodden crack houses and upscale brownstones. Somewhere in this concrete crazy quilt, one teenage Catholic girl is writing in her diary, another is pouring her heart out to a friend, and yet another is praying. And somewhere in this city is a man who wants these young women to make his macabre fantasy become reality. In a passion play of his own, he will take the girls-and a whole city-over the edge. Kevin Byrne is a veteran cop who already knows that edge: He's been living on it far too long. His marriage failing, his former partner wasting away in a hospital, and his heart lost to mad fury, Byrne loves to take risks and is breaking every rule in the book. And now he has been given a rookie partner. Jessica Balzano, the daughter of a famous Philly cop, doesn't want Byrne's help. But they will need each other desperately, since they've just caught the case of a lifetime: Someone is killing devout young women, bolting their hands together in prayer, and committing an abomination upon their otherwise perfect bodies. Byrne and Balzano spearhead the hunt for the serial killer, who leads them on a methodically planned journey. Suspects appear before them like bad dreams-and vanish just as quickly. And while Byrne's sins begin to catch up with him, and Balzano tries to solve the blood-splattered puzzle, the body count rises. Meanwhile, the calendar is approaching Easter and the day of the resurrection. When the last rosary is counted, a madman's methods will be revealed, and the final crime will be the one that hurts the most. Not for the faint of heart...trust me!!!

Review # 2 was written on 2017-04-17 00:00:00 Jack Madeley I'm not a great fan for psychological thrillers, but this one was the exception. A new author for me, Richard Montanari, is what I like to call an 'intelligent' writer. Someone who enjoys using long words in their novels, and using topics most of us dummies don't understand. Religion is one of them for me. Blech!! I had to skip a bunch of the religious stuff, just so I could find out who the killer was. The smallness of the type setting in this book almost had me shelving it until I could get a copy in large type but I had nothing else to read at the moment. I really enjoyed these characters. Jessica and Kevin in particular because they are and will continue to be the main focus of this series. Homicide Detectives are my favorite, serial killers are not. However, I will probably pick up the next book whenever I have nothing else to read. Detective Kevin Byrne is divorced, but has a deaf daughter in high school. He also had a death experience that left him with something close to having psychic abilities but closer to instinct than visions. These two hooks earned enough brownie points for me to seriously think about reading the series, only in large print from now on. Jessica is a newbie detective but her smarts are there and I like how she thinks. Other characters were introduced to us but most had been killed off so I'm not sure what to expect from the next few books. If you're a psychological thriller fan, then this is the series for you.