The Buried Girl

In this particularly chilling psychological thriller, a grieving father and daughter move into a shut-up smalltown mansion, connected with the local narrative of dead and missing girls going back decades. James Ellroy has called Montanari a 'master storyteller'.

Richard Montanari was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to a traditional Italian-American family. After university, he travelled extensively in Europe and lived in London.
Returning to the US, he started working as a freelance writer for The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Seattle Times, and many others. He wrote his first book, Deviant Way, in 1996 and it won the OLMA for Best First Mystery. His novel Shutter Man was named a New York Times Crime Novel of the Year for 2016, and his books have now been published in more than twenty-five languages.