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Very good book! Keeping the story line going in the series, Peter and Rina are visiting family friends in NY. While there Peter is in for the shock of his life and also has to cut his honeymoon short to work the case of a missing boy belonging to the family. He and Rina fly back home to LA after the missing boy not knowing just how much danger the boy is in. Keeps you guessing.
The 4th book in the series featuring Peter Decker, LAPD detective and Rina Lazarus, his wife in Los Angeles, California.
A good mystery with a little look into Orthodox Jewish culture on the side.
Police detective meets devout Jewish woman & marries her. In this book they are on their honeymoon in NY visiting her in-laws from her first husband who is died. Not the best place for a honeymoon. However, they manage to get themselves involved in a search for a missing teenaged boy.
These books are getting better every time. I can't wait for the next one. I don't want to spoil this one for anyone but there is a really exciting discovery in this book.
A great Peter/Rina novel. Always so much information about the Jewish culture, great for myth-busting, but also a wonderful mysterious read!
Ms Kellerman always does a good job with Peter Decker. This was no exception!
Peter Decker of the LAPD never dreamed he'd be spending his honeymoon with his new wife, Rina Lazarus, in an orthodox jewish enclave in Brooklyn, New York-or that a terrible event would end it so abrubtly. But a boy has vanished from the midst of this close-knit religious community, a troubled youth fleeing the tight bonds and strictures he felt were strangling him. The runaway, Noam, is not traveling alone. A killer has taken him under his wing to introduce Noam to a savage world of blood and terror. And now Decker must find them both somewhere in America before a psycopath ends the life of a confused and frightened youngster whose only sin was to want something more.
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I found this book to be extremely entertaining. One of the best in the series!
The second Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus book - GREAT!!!
From the book cover, "L.A. detective Peter Decker and his Jewish bride, Rina Lazarus, are spending their honeymoon in the unlikely locale of Brooklyn, celebrating the Jewish High Holidays. But the festivities are shattered when Noam, an Orthodox teenager, runs away from his family and his cloistered community.
Finding runaways is Decker's specialty. But it's tough getting anyone to open up about a missing kid nobody likes, especially in a close-knit Orthodox society where Decker is clearly an outsider. Then he discovers a line to the outside world that could be the hook he needs to reel in the kid and his companion - a dangerous psychopath with nothing to lose..."
Finding runaways is Decker's specialty. But it's tough getting anyone to open up about a missing kid nobody likes, especially in a close-knit Orthodox society where Decker is clearly an outsider. Then he discovers a line to the outside world that could be the hook he needs to reel in the kid and his companion - a dangerous psychopath with nothing to lose..."
When Los Angeles detective Peter Decker and new wife Rina Lazarus visit her Jewish kinfolks in Brooklyn, startling events disturb their honeymoon. Quite unexpectedly and with great antipathy, Decker--an adoptee--recognizes his natural mother at a holiday gathering. Before he can confront her, though, her troubled 14-year-old grandson goes missing and Decker, fortuitously on hand, begins the search. Soon after he learns that the boy has taken up with a dangerously disturbed and vicious young man, the scene switches to Los Angeles. Hard-hitting details, vignettes of Jewish life, and uncomfortably close glimpses of a cold-hearted psycho make this an entrancing page turner. Not to be missed
one of my favorite series - love the relationship for Peter and Rina
Love all of her books about this couple. This is really one of the best.
I enjoy this series. Interesting characters and well-plotted stories.
Excellent book. Couldn't put it down!!
This is the fifth book in Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mystery series. This series is unique in that it not only has an excellent mystery to follow but it also offers a glimpse into a world few of us have ever seen. The world of the Orthodox Jew.
In this book the newly married Decker and Lazarus are on thier honeymoon in Brooklyn during the Jewish High Holidays. When a teenager from the community runs away, Decker is pressed into service to try and find him. A good solid read.
In this book the newly married Decker and Lazarus are on thier honeymoon in Brooklyn during the Jewish High Holidays. When a teenager from the community runs away, Decker is pressed into service to try and find him. A good solid read.
LA Detective Peter Decker and his Jewish bride, Rina Lazarus, are spending their honeymoon in the unlikely locale of Brooklyn, celebrating the Jewish high holidays. But the festivties are shattered when Noam, an Orthodox teen, runs away from his family and his cloistered community.
Finding runaways is Decker's specialty, but in the close=knit Orthodox society it is hard to get people to open up to an outsider like Decker.
Finding runaways is Decker's specialty, but in the close=knit Orthodox society it is hard to get people to open up to an outsider like Decker.
A good,easy, mystery author without as much graphic imagery and profanity as others in the genre'.
Peter and Rina are on their honeymoon in Brooklyn, not exactly what Peter would have planned. He also would not have planned meeting his birth mother or becoming involved in a family problem concerning a teenage son who has disappeared.
This book was not an easy read for me. The story was compelling as were the side stories. Kellerman showed what strains are probably going to happen between Peter and Rina when it comes to his work and her desire to "help". However, the antagonist of the book was just a bit too crazy and brutal for me. I found myself skipping past the bits describing the murders or their aftermath. Maybe, I just wasn't in the right mindset as I was reading......I don't know. I do know that Kellerman does a good job of giving a word picture of a psychotic killer and his mindset.
We'll see how the next one goes.
This book was not an easy read for me. The story was compelling as were the side stories. Kellerman showed what strains are probably going to happen between Peter and Rina when it comes to his work and her desire to "help". However, the antagonist of the book was just a bit too crazy and brutal for me. I found myself skipping past the bits describing the murders or their aftermath. Maybe, I just wasn't in the right mindset as I was reading......I don't know. I do know that Kellerman does a good job of giving a word picture of a psychotic killer and his mindset.
We'll see how the next one goes.
