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Merciless
By:Richard Montanari
Published on 2007-07-31 by Ballantine Books

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo Man. 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. Lightning fast and razor sharp, this jolting thriller from acclaimed author Richard Montanari coils back in time to deliver a fiendish mystery, a shattering revelation, and one hell of a wild ride. Lock your doors and turn up the lights. Montanari’s terrifying bedtime story will keep you up all night.

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Do not you kind of pine (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's happy druthers) for the good ol'days of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were consistently plainspoken, merely practical, unpretentious, and -- especially else -- dull, dull, boring? Don't you kind of loathe when persons say'don't you believe in this way or feel like that'in an effort to goad you equally psychologically and grammatically into accepting with them? In the words of ABBA: I really do, I actually do, I do(, I actually do, I do). Well, as the interwebs is just a earth in which yesteryear stands shoulder-to-shoulder with today's (and with fetish porn), we could review the past in their inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at least until this site ultimately tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's overview of Macbeth in its entirety. I've bound it with a heavy rope and pulled it here for your perusal. (Please recognize that several a sic are recommended in these reviews.) its really complicated and ridiculous! why cant we be examining like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the least that book is good! There you have it. Refreshingly, not a evaluation written in one of the witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Merely a primal scream unleashed into the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teen, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation by having an economy and a quality that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's report on exactly the same play. You might'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which can be the case, for several I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to read is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it had been supposed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not just a play. Together with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None people had read the play before. None people wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All this compounded to make me pretty much hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can really fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the author and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to see plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to learn a play you then have sinned and are likely to hell, in the event that you rely on hell. If not, you're likely to the DMV. I am also fed up with all you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists together with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a message overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age once we are taught to respect each other's differences, it appears offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow for a petty linguistic rules. 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Once within an incredible although, when you get neck-deep inside dandified pomo hijinks, it truly is an excellent wallow within the pig pencil you're itchin'for. Appreciate it, Jo. Everyone loves both you and your in vain greedy with similes in which cannot approach your bilious hate within your heart. You will be my verizon prepaid phone, as well as We're yours. Figuratively speaking, regarding course. And after this the following is this examine: Macbeth through Bill Shakespeare is best literary do the job inside the English language language, and anyone who disagrees can be an asshole and a dumbhead.