Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne novels

Copycat murders modeled on Psycho, Fatal Attraction and other movies are terrorizing Philadelphia.

When Philadelphia detectives Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne are assigned to investigate the two-year-old killing of Caitlin O'Riordan, their only clue leads them into a diabolical game with a depraved killer known only as Mr. Ludo, who may be responsible for a series of disappearances from the city streets.

Nothing will ever be the same again . . . In the heart of Philadelphia's badlands, Homicide Detectives Byrne and Balzano are called out to a particularly chilling crime scene. Once the pillar of the neighbourhood, an abandoned church has become a killing room. At first it looks like a random act of violence. But then a second body is found, and a third. Each crime scene more disturbing than the last, each murder more brutal. And it soon becomes...

Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings. At...