Two-haiku review:Decker meets womanProtects from abusive spouseThen she disappearsTwo parallel plotsLove that Decker takes in boyGreat family stuff

This is one of my favorites of the series so far. I especially enjoy the personal\family side of the story in addition to the multiple mysteries.

It was not as I expected, but it was fine.

This book was picked for one of my book clubs.This book was just ok for me. Too many storylines (two to three to be exact) and they didn't relate to each other in the end. The book was too long (400 pages).I actually liked the characters but over all didn't like all the different storylines. 😖

This will be the last Peter Decker book I read.... I have read other, later ones. Peter, Rina, their blended family and their relationship to one another has grown and flourished, and it makes me smile. I consider them friends. I was introduced to the Peter & Rina series a generation ago by a very dear friend whose husband, like Peter, also took the Hebrew name Akiva. My friends identified with Peter and Rina; my husband and I loved our dear friends; I devoured the series and my husband read a c...

It says much for a series author when the reader forgets that the characters aren't real. When I read the flap and learned this was a Chris Donatti novel, I had to think back to when Decker first met him. (Justice) and I mentally reviewed Decker's resume to determine where he was stationed. I was aghast to learn that Hannah was going off to college. I remember when she was born. Scary that these characters are so real, so believable. This was a terrific novel that intertwined a gruesome murder w...

A bit better than her last two books. Two decent plots, a young woman found hanged at a construction site takes up Peter Decker's invetigative time while he also has to help figure out whether his friend Terry was murdered by her professional killer husband, Chris Donatti and what to do with their musically talented son, Gabe, who was abandoned in his and Rina's care.

A mystery within a mystery. A double-edged story derived from lust, deceit, & murder with a twist of a missing person. The story starts out innocently enough but spasms into many directions & still the author captures the reader's attention to digest it all. I liked this book because there was more focus on the background noise in the book than the people. What I mean is there were several focuses directed throughout the book & the author enlightened the reader from not only the main character b...

Another Peter Decker series book that keeps your interest throughout the book. You get an idea of what will happen at the end but the book is lighthearted and intriguing and yet still wants to keep you interested in what is happening. Peter and his team investigate the crimes and keep you guessing.

We’ve read every one of the Rina Lazarus / Peter Decker stories to date; and hate to say this was probably our least favorite. The 420 page book sees the first 50 pages set the scene, then the clues ever so painfully and slowly appear for 350 pages, followed by an intense 20-page ending that reveals all with little or no further work on the part of the detectives. Our high school English teacher would never have approved that outline !!As usual, “Hangman”, mostly about a young female nurse hung

Never fail to hold my attention and the plots are always well executed

What I appreciate the most about Faye Kellerman, one of my favorite authors, is how her stories blend a fast-pced crime plot with a story that exposes the happiest, most satisfying explication of the goodness and kindness of family life.

It is only the middle of February and the month is beginning to drag. There are still ten long days left before the calendar turns to March and women's history month. I have a diverse lineup planned but I am still stuck in February waiting for it to mercifully end. With family members fighting off infections, I decided to back track and revisit a series that at this point is like a visit with family. I am up to date with Faye Kellerman's Decker and Lazarus series and am eagerly awaiting the next...

It was nice to curl up with old friends, Loo and Rina, and go on one of their adventures. All the kids appeared in the book so that was great, Cindy only made a minor appearance which was good as I find her annoying. This time the Loo has two cases to solve and one is very personal. The cases don't overlap which was a good touch. It didn't make it too cutesy-pie. Both had very intersting solutions and I read rapidly as I didn't want to put it down. The biggest question I have is why Rina puts up...

I really enjoy Faye Kellerman's novels about detective Peter Decker. She combines the seamy grind of his policeman's job with the softer side of his personal life with wife, children, and friends combining Jewish and American culture. Both police and private sides feels authentic. A policeman's job is full of tedious tracking down of details and finding connections. And family life is not all smooth sailing either, needing work and give-and-take. In this story, the wife of a sociopathic killer d...

Faye Kellerman to me is pretty hit and miss. I will pick up one of her books when I know that I won't have much time to concentrate fully on a non-fiction (my preference.) This was a true MISS. Four and five stars -- really folks? It was slowwwwwwww and boring. The details are often irrelevant and trivial (i.e. who cares what Marge is wearing. Faye tells us repeatedly anyway. It doesn't move the plot forward to include those words. It's padding. As is her repeated reference to her claustrophobia...

I'm enjoying getting back into this series. In this one, Peter and Rina end up hosting a 14 year old musical prodigy whose parents basically dump him on them when his mother runs off to India to have another baby by a man other than his father (who is a criminal).Peter is trying to find his mom while also carrying his usual investigative load to solve the murder of a nurse who was found hanging in a construction site. It's a nice convoluted mystery which turns up not one but two murderers.

4 Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Stars* * * * 2010 Before Goodreads- On Sale $1.99 NowBefore Goodreads and Romance Reading in my life...The Kellermans were the bomb. I started with Jonathan Kellerman and when his wife starting writing, I was thrilled to see a woman doing thrillers, etc. I have read her books about this team and can't remember much about this one...but when I saw it was on sale, it brought back my excitement to see Faye Kellerman's name on a book. Hangman (Peter Decker/Rina Lazar...

43% read and calling it quits on this one. I found it a rather bland read. The build up is too slow and there are too many unnecessary details that don't really add to the main plot. Even at the half-way mark the detectives are only getting started with looking for clues and suspects. And what seems to be a disconnected sub-plot isn't adding to the interest value either.I was expecting this to be a runaway, fast paced police procedural. But its slow moving and I'm indifferent to how it unfurls.

Yet another page turner by Faye Kellerman. I really enjoy reading the Peter Decker/Rina Lazrus mystery novels and the way Kellerman weaves the intensity of Peter's job with the soft side of his personal life as he relates to his wife, his children, and the outsiders he takes in. In this particular story Kellerman captures your attention as you try to figure out "who dunnit"; were there several serial killers? were they related? It's a fantasy world, but I like to believe Peter Decker's team is r...