Jessica Balzano Books in Order

Detective Kevin Byrne investigates a string of brutal home invasions where families are slaughtered and the killer removes their faces. As connections emerge to Byrne's childhood in Devil's Pocket, he and Jessica Balzano race a vengeful Farren heir.

In a quiet Philadelphia suburb, children are found murdered and artfully posed with porcelain dolls and invitations to a mysterious tea dance. Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano hunt the urbane killer who calls himself Mr Marseille.

In this prequel short, rookie detective Kevin Byrne spends Christmas Eve 1988 chasing a brutal predator through Philadelphia's Devil's Pocket. With his veteran partner sidelined, Byrne faces a formative case that foreshadows the darkness of his later career.

Byrne and Balzano investigate the murder of a solitary man whose past leads to Cold River, a shuttered psychiatric hospital notorious for dream based memory experiments. As copycat killings mount, an Estonian serial killer's crimes begin replaying on Philadelphia streets.

In an abandoned Philadelphia church turned slaughterhouse, Byrne and Balzano uncover a string of ritualistic murders staged in eerie, sacred spaces. Each new body reveals a meticulous mastermind who always seems one step ahead of the homicide unit.

A sadistic killer orchestrates murders that precisely echo unsolved Philadelphia cases, down to the crime scene photographs. While Jessica Balzano juggles fresh bodies, Kevin Byrne follows haunting musical clues that tie the spree to his first, long ago arrest.

A teenage runaway is found drowned in a Philadelphia basement, and months later a chilling confession pulls Byrne and Balzano back into the Badlands. As bodies surface, they uncover a killer using the city itself as a deadly game board.

Young women are discovered frozen beside the Schuylkill River, posed like storybook heroines. Tackling a trail of eerie clues, Byrne and Balzano trace the killings back to buried crimes and a vengeful enemy who has waited decades to strike.

A killer dubbed The Actor is recreating famous movie scenes, splicing real murders into rental videos around Philadelphia. As the bodies mount, Byrne and Balzano descend into a world of underground filmmaking, pornography, and obsession with the perfect shot.

Philadelphia detective Kevin Byrne is paired with rookie Jessica Balzano when devout Catholic schoolgirls begin turning up murdered, their hands bolted in prayer. Racing toward Easter, the partners chase a fanatic killer through neighborhoods that expose each of their secrets.