Books by Faye Kellerman and Complete Book Reviews

Faye Kellerman, Author Arbor House $14.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-87795-771-3
Baptist big cop Peter Decker is reduced to jelly by tiny Jewish jewel Rina Lazarus, mistress of a ritual bathhouse in Los Angeles, on whose grounds a rape, which Decker is investigating, has just taken place. When she's not scrubbing out the mikvah,
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Faye Kellerman, Author . Morrow $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-688-15614-5
In this complex, disturbing novel (after 2000's Stalker), Kellerman again adroitly balances Rina Lazarus's consuming Orthodox Judaism with the broader societal issues faced by her husband, L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker. Here they...
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Faye Kellerman, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14824-2
Kellerman's fourth mystery to feature Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus lacks the passion and suspense of earlier outings. (June)
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Faye Kellerman, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14839-6
LAPD detective Peter Decker is hot on the trail of an infant who mysteriously vanishes from a hospital. (Sept.)
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Faye Kellerman, Author Arbor House $16.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-87795-887-1
Peter Decker, detective sergeant in the LAPD, meets young widow Rina Lazarus while investigating an attempted rape at the yeshiva in Deep Canyon where she lives. Rina's religious convictions shape their ensuing relationship and Peter begins the...
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Faye Kellerman, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (607p) ISBN 978-1-55710-027-6
Kellerman's ( Sacred and Profane ) first departure from her series featuring Detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus is a tour de force that shouldn't be missed. The story is brilliantly original and breathtaking in its scope. The beautiful and...
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Faye Kellerman, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-688-08603-9
On a summer night in a housing development near Los Angeles, police sergeant Peter Decker finds a winsome two-year-old girl playing on a swing set--and wearing blood-soaked pajamas. Unclaimed, ``Sally'' is placed in a foster home while Decker and...
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Faye Kellerman, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (359p) ISBN 978-0-688-08604-6
Kellerman's fourth mystery to feature Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, last seen in Milk and Honey , begins in the Orthodox Jewish community of Boro Park, Brooklyn (N.Y.), where the newlyweds have traveled to celebrate the High Holy Days with Rina's...
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Faye Kellerman, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (368p) ISBN 978-0-688-10554-9
Complications in the delivery room lead to major surgery for Rina Decker, who, when last seen in False Prophet , was pregnant with her and husband Peter Decker's first child . She is barely out of danger when an infant vanishes from the hospital's...
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Faye Kellerman, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (396p) ISBN 978-0-688-04612-5
Orthodox Jewish housewife Rina Lazarus and her husband-and convert to Judaism-LAPD Detective Sergeant Peter Decker (last seen in Grievous Sin) have their hands full in their seventh adventure. While Peter and his partner, Det. Marge Dunn,...
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Faye Kellerman, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (388p) ISBN 978-0-688-04613-2
The eighth appearance of LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, will likely increase her constituency as she concentrates more on the case at hand and less on the Jewish law and lore that rises from Rina's Orthodox Jewish...
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Faye Kellerman, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-15649-7
Layering crisis upon crisis, Kellerman builds a page-turner in this 10th Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus novel, which, like previous titles in the series (most recently Prayers for the Dead), is based on a complex, carefully established network of...
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Faye Kellerman, Author Avon Books $7.99 (465p) ISBN 978-0-380-72498-7
Continuing her series featuring LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, Kellerman's latest concerns the prom-night murder of a high-school girl. (Aug.)
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Faye Kellerman. Morrow, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-206432-5
A teenage romance dominates bestseller Kellerman’s subpar 20th novel featuring LAPD Lt. Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus (after 2010’s Hangman). Decker’s search for the truth in the wake of the inexplicable suicide of high school student...
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Faye Kellerman. Morrow, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-212175-2
Soap opera-ish family drama distracts from the main plot line of bestseller Kellerman’s 21st Decker/Lazarus novel (after 2012’s Gun Games). LAPD veteran Peter Decker looks into the bizarre case of Hobart Penny, a wealthy recluse in his late 80s,...
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Faye Kellerman. Morrow, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-227018-4
Art theft provides the theme for bestseller Kellerman’s deftly researched 22nd Peter Dekker/Rina Lazarus novel (after 2013’s The Beast). Dekker, recently retired from the LAPD, has traded palm trees and sunshine for the snowy winters of upstate New...
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Faye Kellerman. Morrow, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-227021-4
Set in Greenbury, N.Y., bestseller Kellerman’s plodding 23rd mystery featuring Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (after 2014’s Murder 101) opens with the discovery in a forest of the corpse of college student Eli Wolf, who apparently shot himself....
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Faye Kellerman. Morrow, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-242496-9
In bestseller Kellerman’s so-so 24th novel featuring Peter Decker, a retired LAPD homicide detective who now works for the Greenbury, N.Y., police, and his wife, Rina Lazarus (after 2015’s The Theory of Death), a routine morning hike for Rina...
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Faye Kellerman. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (704p) ISBN 978-0-06-227024-5
Set in fictional River Remez, N.Mex., this overlong suspense novel from bestseller Kellerman (Straight into Darkness) centers on the obsessive quest of nerdy high schooler Ben Vicksburg for the serial killer who murdered his beloved older sister,...
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Faye Kellerman. Morrow, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-242498-3
The bludgeoning murder of Brady Neil, a 26-year-old electronics store employee, drives bestseller Kellerman’s formulaic 25th novel featuring Peter Decker, a police detective in Greenbury, N.Y., who has spent most of his career in L.A., and his wife,
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Faye Kellerman, Author . Warner $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-53038-5
Raw. Brutal. Ugly. And, of course, riveting. L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker, an orthodox Jew, answers a call for help from his half-brother, Jonathan, in this 14th tale (after 2001's The Forgotten) from bestseller Kellerman. Ephraim Lieber,
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Faye Kellerman, Author . Warner $25.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-446-53131-3
Bestseller Kellerman's latest Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel (after 2002's Stone Kiss) will please her fans, but is unlikely to make new converts. When Cindy Decker, Peter's LAPD officer daughter (who had a big role in 2000's...
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Faye Kellerman, Author . Warner $24.99 (327p) ISBN 978-0-446-53039-2
Bestseller Kellerman's hardcore fans will welcome this eclectic volume, whose 17 selections include two new tales about her series husband-and-wife team, LAPD Lt. Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus; two stories with family themes, one coauthored with
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Faye Kellerman, Author . Morrow $25.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-06-122732-5
A coincidence so improbable that a character comments on it renders bestseller Kellerman’s 16th novel to feature Lt. Peter Decker of the LAPD and wife Rina Lazarus (after 2003’s Street Dreams ) one of the series’ lesser entries....
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Faye Kellerman, Author . Morrow $25.95 (367p) ISBN 978-0-06-122733-2
In bestseller Kellerman's uneven 17th novel to feature LAPD Lt. Peter Decker and wife Rina Lazarus (after 2007's The Burnt House ), Decker must solve a 15-year-old cold case—the murder of saintly Bennett Little, a high school history
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Faye Kellerman, Author . Morrow $25.99 (390p) ISBN 978-0-06170-232-7
In bestseller Kellerman's solid 18th novel to feature L.A. police detective Lt. Peter Decker and his wife, Rina (after The Mercedes Coffin ), Rina finds that some jury duty should include hazardous duty pay. A shooting rampage at the 70-acre...
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Faye Kellerman, Author William Morrow & Co Inc $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-14367-1
Powerful, assured and absorbing, Kellerman's ninth Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus (Sanctuary; Justice) mystery begins with the brutal murder and mutilation of renowned heart surgeon, researcher and fundamentalist Christian Azor Sparks. LAPD Lieutenant...
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Faye Kellerman, Author Avon Books $7.99 (424p) ISBN 978-0-380-72624-0
The ninth Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery, an investigation into the murder of a heart surgeon, is ""powerful, assured and absorbing,"" said PW in a starred review. (July)
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Faye Kellerman, Author William Morrow & Co Inc $25.5 (424p) ISBN 978-0-688-14369-5
In leaving behind LAPD detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus (last seen in Serpent's Tooth, 1997), for this Las Vegas mystery, Kellerman unfortunately also abandoned the warmth and depth of characterization that mark her series' books....
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Faye Kellerman, Author $25 (375p) ISBN 978-0-688-15612-1
In her 11th Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery (Moon Music, etc.), Kellerman develops the theme of parent-child relationships along two fronts. Before Father Jupiter became the head of a religious cult called the Order of the Rings of God, he was a...
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Faye Kellerman, Author William Morrow & Co Inc $25 (406p) ISBN 978-0-688-15613-8
LAPD detective Peter Decker, promoted to lieutenant after his heroics in Jupiter's Bones (1999), is overloaded with troubles in this outstanding, suspense-packed mystery, the 12th in Kellerman's acclaimed series. As usual, a challenging case...
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Faye Kellerman, Morrow, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06170-256-3
Kellerman once again mixes mystery and soap opera in her 19th novel featuring Lt. Peter Decker of the LAPD and his wife, Rina Lazarus (after Blindman's Bluff). Terry McLaughlin, a doctor and battered wife, asks Decker, who's an old friend, to help...
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Faye Kellerman, Author, Aliza Kellerman, Author . Harper $16.99 (263p) ISBN 978-0-06-168722-8
This first collaboration between bestselling mystery author Faye Kellerman and her teenage daughter Aliza has an enticing premise but falls short. After a van accident in the desert during a school trip, high schooler Kaida Hutchenson and two...
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Faye Kellerman, Author, Mitchell Greenberg, Read by , read by Mitchell Greenberg. HarperAudio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-144181-3
Like the series it inspired, Kellerman's award-winning 1986 debut novel combines police procedure, via hard-boiled LAPD detective Peter Decker, with Judaic rites and rituals courtesy of its heroine Rina Lazarus, an ultra-Orthodox widowed mother
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Faye Kellerman, Author, Mitchell Greenberg, Performed by HarperAudio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-176817-0
When billionaire developer Guy Kaffey, his wife and assorted employees are brutally murdered, police lieutenant Pete Decker investigates the motives and alibis of the remaining Kaffeys, while Rina, out on jury duty, is largely absent from the main...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author, Faye Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-345-46798-0
The second collaboration by bestsellers Jonathan and Faye Kellerman (after Double Homicide ) offers two thin novellas that dedicated fans will most appreciate. In the first, My Sister's Keeper , Faye Kellerman's LAPD detective Peter Decker...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author, Faye Kellerman, Author . Warner $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-53296-9
Those who admire risk, take note: two authors at the top of their game have done something quite new. Those who fear change, take heart: the results are just fine. Faye and Jonathan Kellerman, each with a slew of bestsellers, have collaborated on a...
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Faye Kellerman. Morrow, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-291045-5
In bestseller Kellerman’s so-so 26th novel featuring married couple Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (after 2018’s Walking Shadows), Decker, a former LAPD detective now with the police in the “sleepy little college town” of Greenbury, N.Y., has two...
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Faye Kellerman. Morrow, $28.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-291049-3
Brothel owner Christopher Donatti, a self-described psychopath, takes center stage in bestseller Kellerman’s disturbing 27th novel featuring Peter Decker, a police detective in Greenbury, N.Y., and his wife, Rina Lazarus, whose interests include...
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