My least favorite of the series so far. First part of the book starts off in Brooklyn, with a large extended family of Rina's Orthodox Jewish former in-laws. So many new characters, I found it a bit confusing. Once the story goes back to L.A. I found it more interesting--I like the Southern California setting so much more. (I guess you can call that location bias!) I'm finding it hard to like Peter Decker and he makes so many bad decisions in this book. He does go through quite a bit of emotiona...

It's been 20 plus years since I first read "Day of Atonement", and it's even better than I remembered. Although, for the life of me, I couldn't remember how it ended. Definitely one of the best in the series, and one of Faye Kellerman's better novels- spellbinding prose, a fantastic cast of characters, well developed to the nth degree, gripping, thrilling and very touching. Reminded me, again, why I love this series so much.Wish I could've given it more than five stars. Truly an amazing thriller...

Two-haiku review:Decker in BrooklynYoung Jewish boy runs awayDecker takes on caseVery good storyMore about Decker's backgroundHe's very good man

I love Decker and Rina! They're finally married and spending their honeymoon with her very extended family in Brooklyn for Rosh Hashanah. Not exactly the ideal honeymoon, especially when Decker meets the woman who is his biological mother and then one of the teenaged nephews runs away. The boy hooks up with a dangerous character, and they manage to get to L.A. where they begin a crime spree. Naturally, Decker can't help but get involved in the search for the boy, which leads to all kinds of acti...

I read this book years ago and enjoyed it every bit as much as I did the first time. If you haven't read Kellerman before I recommend going back to the beginning and starting with Ritual Bath. The changing/growing relationship between her hero and heroine are my favorite part of these books and Day of Atonement is no exception. Rina and Peter are newly married in this book and seeing how the learn to work with each other and deal with complicated family problems is wonderful. If I had to rate th...

This was a great book. I enjoyed the main plot of a lost boy and Peter Decker's search for him in New York and Los Angeles. I enjoy the constantly growing relationship between Rina and Peter. I love Peter's struggling relationship with his religion and himself; how he must come to terms with who he is as a person and as a Jew and how being raised Baptist and the relationship with his adopted family is impacted by his return to his birth religion. All of this creates a depth of character that is

This is an interesting book and I never thought I will enjoy it the way I did.I gave it 3 Stars.

This is one of the fairly early Faye Kellerman books taking place not too long after Rina and Decker are married.It is an exciting and is a "can't put it down" book". Besides being a great mystery it has lots of information on the Jewish culture.I loved this book!

Ahh, the honeymoon, a time for joy, celebration, bonding, love, excitement...murder.Yep as seems to be the case with some people (old English ladies, mystery writers, owners of mystery book stores etc.) no matter where you go, murder and mayhem seem to ensue. They dog your footsteps. So when another horrific murder takes place near Peter and Rina and since it involves "family" and Peter is now the "policeman in the family" he gets drawn in.Of course it's not that simple, there are also huge fami...

Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement. We all have need of the cleansing catharsis of repentance and forgiveness whether religious or not. All, but perhaps some more than others. Noam is the runaway child in the age-old tightrope routine between parents attempting to rear young adults; the same trying to assert their own independence.

Enjoyed the book. Decker and Rina are married and on their honeymoon in Brooklyn with Rina’s former in-laws. Shock sets in as Decker sees his biological mother at a family dinner. Now the mystery begins as Deckers biological nephew is missing. Decker, ever the policeman, takes on the job of finding the missing boy. He goes from Brooklyn to L.A. to find the boy. The plot both personally and professionally continue. A good read.

The series is best enjoyed in chronological order.Decker ends up hunting down a relative of Rina's, a teenager who has escaped a close-knit religious community. Some of Rina's relatives are behaving like total dicks, which Decker supports to a very high degree... interesting characters though, and lots of things happening.

In this fourth book in her mystery series, Faye Kellerman details Peter and Rina Decker's honeymoon to Brooklyn, New York for Rosh Hashanah. They are to spend the new year at the home of Rina's former in laws, Rabbi and Mrs Lazarus. Per family tradition the extended Lazarus and Levine families spend the holiday together, as though they are one large mishpacha (family). Yet something is amiss: when Peter first notices Mrs Levine, he sees her face, and realizes that she is his mother who gave him

As book four opens, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus are finally married. Decker is fully and officially Jewish. He technically didn’t have to convert, since his biological mother was Jewish, but he had passed all the tests and attended all the study groups. But this is not the honeymoon he had hoped for. Instead of being somewhere exotic, Decker is in Brooklyn spending Rosh Hashanah with his new wife’s former in-laws, of all people. He’s hanging out with some orthodox Jews, and one of them turns o...

The case that Decker and Lazarus pursue in this book is suspenseful, and overall I enjoyed the book. I gave it 3 stars instead of 4, however, because I just can't buy an important premise that is crucial to the plot. In this very early book in the Decker/Lazarus series, they have just gotten married and gone to visit Rina Lazarus' extended family in New York for Rosh Hashanah. Decker glimpses a group of female relatives and family friends preparing food and instantly determines that one of them

Decker & Lazarus - Book 4Peter & Rina have married and are in NY on their honeymoon meeting Rina's Orthodox Jewish family and family friends. Peter didn't expect that he would come face to face with his biological mother, Frieda Levine. (Peter was adopted at birth by a loving Baptist couple and lived in Florida). The Levine's are close friends of the Lazarus'. When teenager Noam Levine becomes missing, Peter goes in search. His search takes them back home to LA where he confronts a psychopath wh...

So the saga continues! Peter Decker is such a flawed character, I guess that's what makes this series to good. Rina Lazarus is a likeable but also flawed character who can sometimes put Decker in his place. The story starts off in New York City where Decker has just married Rina, and is meeting all the in-laws and friends of family, etc. A disgruntled, Orthodox teenager befriends an on the edge young Jewish man - one with a very nasty habit and urges! A race across continental U.S.A. keeps your

I enjoyed Book 4 and I am moving on to Book 5 right away. The Peter and Rina storyline is compelling enough to keep me going, and I found this cop-plot was more interesting than the previous ones.Part of the reason why I liked this installment more than the others is because of the language - the previous books were not just rude, that wouldn’t faze me at all, but crude. Book 4 was much tamer on that front so maybe the worst is over. (As far as my memory goes, there was a total lack of toilet-ta...

A bit slower than the first three books in the series but still a good read.

Ok. Here goes.Decker uses handcuffs on his wife because he wants her to stay in the car. There is no preliminary disagreement. He stops the car, parks it, then he handcuffs her. She is shocked. So was I. She has a gun and she knows how to shoot it, but instead of either letting her help, or calling up for backup, he goes by himself to check out two people who have murdered and robbed. When he is hurting, he won't take pain medication. He won't see a therapist, despite having PTSD from the Vietna...