A killer who seems to have the ability to vanish baffles Philadelphia detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano, and the city's residents live in constant fear as more victims are discovered, virtually under the department's nose. But the key to The Stolen Ones, Richard Montanari's seventh novel starring Byrne and Balzano, isn't supernatural at all.
Luther Wade was born and raised in a hospital for the criminally insane; when it closed, he remained, trolling the passageways underneath the city and carrying out the nightmarishly evil dreams of one of Europe's deadliest serial killers. A mute child found wandering in the street in the middle of the night carries with her a vital clue to the case, as well as a link between the past and the present. Byrne and Balzano have to race to put the clues together and find this mad man before he can wreak more havoc; as they do, Montanari steeps the story in the devious secrets of the hospital's past.
With a plot as eerie and contorted as the catacombs Luther inhabits, The Stolen Ones is a thriller fan's delight--a book readers will stay up late to finish, with all the lights on. Part thriller, part mystery, part horror, The Stolen Ones is a completely great story. --Jen Forbus of Jen's Book Thoughts