{"product_id":"badlands-a-novel-of-suspense-9780345492432","title":"Badlands: A Novel of Suspense","description":"A teenage runaway's body is found in the basement of a rancid tenement building in the desolate, dangerous North Philly district dubbed the Badlands. The inexplicable cause of death: drowning. Months later, this dormant homicide case stirs back to life. A confession to the bizarre murder sends Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano rushing to make an arrest. But what they find will chill these hardened veterans to the bone. As the body count grows, a terrifying design literally takes shape. Pieces of a gruesome puzzle are being set into place by a madman using the city as his game board. His playthings are the innocent, and his opponents-and pawns-are Byrne and Balzano, who must, before time runs out, decipher the truth about a shadowy house of horrors and its elusive master.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Montanari is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. His work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e, and scores of other national and regional publications. He is the OLMA- winning author of the internationally acclaimed thrillers\u003cb\u003e Merciless, The Skin Gods, The Rosary Girls, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKiss of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeviant Way\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Violet Hour. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844377579794,"sku":"9780345492432","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8ae4e128-6e5e-47b9-8c50-baa294153377.jpg?v=1737318207","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/badlands-a-novel-of-suspense-9780345492432","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}