With Bone Box, I can say that Faye Kellerman's series has devolved into the "cozy mystery" genre. Her books have gradually lost their oomph over the years, but I've always liked the family cultures juxtaposed upon the harshness of Decker's job. Somehow, his retirement just isn't lending itself to the same intrigue nor charm as Faye's earlier books.

Another enjoyable novel in the Decker/Lazarus series. There were a couple of places I felt the story slowed down a little because of extra details being added, but overall I enjoyed the usual suspense and family interactions.

I received Bone Box as an ARC, never having read Faye Kellerman's Decker series. While I always say I will not do it, this seems to be my year of starting a series at the tail end, lol! This is the second time in 2017! However I am so glad that I did as I really enjoyed reading this book. While hiking in the woods in an upstate New York college town, Rina Lazarus stumbles upon skeletal remains. Her husband Peter Decker, former LAPD detective and currently a member of Greenbury PD, is soon leadin...

After they became empty nesters, Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina moved from Los Angeles to upstate Greenbury, New York - where Peter now works for the Greenbury Police Department. It's been a quiet summer in Greenbury, crime-wise, until Rina discovers a skeletal hand near the Bogat Hiking Trail.The unearthed remains are traced to Lawrence/Lorraine Pettigrew, a former student of Morse McKinley College - one of the schools in the local 'Five Colleges of Upstate Consortium.' The transgende...

The fabulous cover for BONE BOX was the first thing that caught my attention and I found the blurb fascinating. It all starts with Rina Lazarus out on a walk in the woods, taking in the scenery not at all expecting to find human remains. Someone has buried a body and her husband police detective Peter Decker, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for Greenbury Police has to figure out both the identity of the dead person and who's behind the murder. And, it gets worse another body...

3.5 stars, actually.Don't get me wrong. I've never not enjoyed a book in this wonderful, long-running series, and this one is no exception. But from the git-go, things just seemed a bit "off" to me - not the least of which is the interaction between former Los Angeles Police Department detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus. Maybe it was because they're both semi-retired now, living in the lovely upstate New York community of Greenbury, home to the Five Colleges of Upstate consortium....

Although I am not usually a fan of best sellers or thrillers, there is one series I make an exception for. That is the Decker and Lazarus series by best selling mystery writer Faye Kellerman. With the year winding down, I have reached the end of the series to date, and I did not want that one last book hanging over my head as the calendar changes. Bone Box is the 24th book in this long running series and it does seem that Kellerman has plans to wind things down soon. Finally entrenched in life i...

HORRIFYINGLY homophobic and transphobic. Drink a shot for every pointed misgendering of a victim and you will have drunk yourself into sweet blackout oblivion by chapter 5. Throw in regular total incurious They Just Didn't Care cluelessness about how gender and sexuality and actual gay/queer/transgender people actually work in 2017, and you will welcome the soothing distraction of hangover. CONCLUSION: go get blind drunk, it is less painful than this book

I kept pressing on, hoping that Faye Kellerman made one of the murder victims a trans woman in order to be inclusive. Hoping that my (previously) beloved Peter Decker, and therefore the readers, would be taught that gender is not binary and pronouns are important and trans women are women and...nope. I'm seventy-fucking-six percent done with this book and I can't take another page of the casual transphobia, dead-naming, and misgendering. I've read all 23 previous books in this series and I'll ne...

Obviously, I’ve come to this series very late in the game: Number 24. By now everybody (except me, apparently) knows all about Peter and Rina, a sortof latter-day, less witty Nick & Nora Charles, but from SoCal, transplanted by their 24th reincarnation to upstate New York: Jewish, middle-class, with a passel of kids, grand-kids, former and current (work) partners, former clients, ex- (and not-so-ex-) criminal friends. It was at times a bit mystifying to an outsider, but not impossibly so. These

This book was promising until the author forgot to add an ending.

Rina is hiking and stumbles across a mostly buried body, who turns out to be a flamboyant man undergoing therapy to become a woman. Things get complicated quickly as in the process of determining the identity of the dead body, other missing women from the local colleges are introduced. Peter and his recent trainee (Tyler McAdams) start assembling the clues, including finding a key witness to identify a serial killer. Rina being more involved was refreshing.

And so with “Bone Box” Faye Kellerman fills out her second full dozen Rina Lazarus/Peter Decker novels. In the early novels, Rina’s role was more prominent – and the leading lady was used unabashedly to illuminate the strict practices of conservative Judaism. As the series matured, the focus shifted mostly to LAPD senior cop Peter – while there were family-oriented interludes, the tales were almost exclusively police procedurals. As the couple aged, and their nest empties out, the stories became...

Another decent Decker/Lazarus mystery. This one was nice and twisty. My only complaint is the sheer amount of uncomfortable language Kellerman used in regards to the murdered transgender character. Misgendering, dead naming, and even a cringe-worthy moment where someone referred to her as "He, she or it." I get that the characters in the book were uneducated about how to talk about transgender people, but I still found it uncomfortable. And having characters who were close to the woman in questi...

31/85, 4 stars ****I love this author, her crime thrillers are right up there with the best of the best! This is book number 24 in the series and not a one of those 24 books have been anything less than a four-starrer :)

First Read: What a surprise to learn that Richard Ferrone is in another series and this episode is called Bone Box. I very much enjoyed it. I've not read any of Faye Kellerman books before. I've been a pretty big fan of John Sanford with the "In Prey" series, and Ferrone has been his narrator. His wife is Weather and they live in Minnesota. The similarities between the wives and their relationships is very interesting to me.In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman's best selling series, Rina

I've read, and enjoyed, most of Ms Kellerman's Decker/Lazarus series. This book was marred by (at best) a severe case of misinformation about nonbinary gender orientation/expression or (at worst) homo/transphobia. If you don't understand something either get educated about it or don't write about it. If you "have issues" about something, have the decency to leave it alone.

I haven't read a PD/RL book in a long time. I totally missed their move across country and the kids growing up and having kids of their own. Having said that, this book was painful. First off it was transphobic and disrespectful. Secondly, the mystery part was way too easy--not in the I solved in on page twenty way (I was still pissed off about the transphobia and the anti-LGBTQ sentiments at that point) but in the Decker solved it way too easily for a cold case kind of way.

Rina, wife to Detective Peter Decker, hikes in the woods to take pictures of beautiful trees when she literally steps on bones. Turns out the skeleton has been buried for years. Decker and his partner McAdams focus on the local colleges for missing students. Rina helps out where she can. Another skeleton is found nearby and then a third. Decker has to consider whether a serial killer has been at work over the past few years. Following up on interviews with the families and friends of the victims...

Confusion reigns in this book is the victim male (Lawrence) or female (Lorraine). Was she/he killed because they were transgender? These are just some of the questions that arise when Rina stumbles on a corpse while hiking on Bogat trail alone. Soon more questions are added to the list as more bodies are found and suspects multiply. With multiple victims and multiple killers one is left to wonder if Decker will be able to put ALL the criminals away. Not only does Decker have "the kid" Tyler McAd...