A. homicide detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, his Orthodox Jewish wife, return in a new entry in this popular series. Faye Kellerman can be counted on to deliver emotional complexity along with suspense, and in The Forgotten it comes from the relationship between Peter and Jacob, Rina's troubled teenage son. Jacob has a personal connection to the event that sets off this intricately plotted novel, the defacing of Rina's synagogue by one of his classmates. Ernesto Golding can't explain why he vandalized the synagogue, but when he and his therapists are murdered months after the incident, Peter realizes that something the teenager told him when admitting his guilt may hold the key to the killings: Ernesto's belief that his grandfather may have been a Nazi who posed as a Jew to escape to South America after the war. Investigating Ernesto's story gives Rina a strand of the plot to tease out; meanwhile, Peter concentrates on another motive for the therapist murders that involves computer fraud, the College Board exams, and the high cost exacted by parents who pressure their teenagers to succeed.
Excellent story with lots of twists and turns. Highly recommend
A good mystery/detective story. "...featuring LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus..." The story centers around troubled youths, dysfunctional families, computer hacking and the concentration camps of WWII. Odd ending ... left me with the feeling that there might be someone else involved but still out there.
The unofficial caretaker of her small store front synagogue. Rina is shocked when she receives a morning call from the police. The modest place of worship has been descrated with anit-semitic graffitti and grishly nazi death-camp photographs.
Couldn't put it down!!
