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In the silent pre-dawn city hours -- alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New York -- LAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered in blood that is not hers. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps forward to claim the little girl. Obsessed more deeply by this case than he imagined possible, Decker is...
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Peter and Rina are delighted with their newborn baby girl, but the scene at the Los Angeles hospital is a nightmare. Budget cutbacks and staff shortages so compromise security in the nursery that Peter, the ever-anxious cop, worries about his family's safety.
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From New York Times best-selling author Faye Kellerman comes an extraordinary anthology of her best short writing. Here the backdrop of contemporary California becomes fertile ground for Kellerman's riveting tales of murder, mystery, and family ties most sinister and deadly. Among the first-rate short mysteries in this collection: the brand new "Garden of Eden" and "Open House" feature the famous sleuthing duo Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus; "Bull's-Eye"...
24) The forgotten
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Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Peter Decker, are shocked by an outrage that cuts close to the spiritual heart of their family. Rina's small storefront synagogue has been desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti and grisly Nazi death camp photographs. The alleged perpetrator is seventeen-year-old Ernesto Golding, a "rich kid" obsessed with haunting suspicions about the origins of his Polish paternal grandfather. Then Ernesto is...
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The brutal murder of Dr. Azor Sparks in an alley behind a restaurant is greeted with public outrage and a demand for swift, sure justice. But the investigation into the well-known surgeon's death is raising too many questions and providing too few answers for homicide detective Lieutenant Peter Decker.
Why, for example, would the family of a man so beloved respond to his slaying with more surprise than grief? And what linked a celebrated doctor with...
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Once Dr. Emil Euler Ganz was a preeminent astrophysicist with a world-renowned reputation. But then he vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues. Fifteen years later, he reappeared as "Father Jupiter," the founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult, The Order of the Rings. And now he's dead--a vial of sleeping pills and an empty bottle of vodka standing near his lifeless body.
Was Ganz's death an accident? Suicide? Or did...
27) The ritual bath
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Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only...
28) Stalker: a novel
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L.A. Homicide Detective Peter Decker never wanted the perils of his job to touch his family. But now his two worlds have collided.
A first year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, Cynthia Decker became a cop against her father, Peter Decker's, wishes. But police work is in her blood, and she's determined to make it on her own -- even now, when her razor sharp instincts for danger are telling her that something is very wrong...The signs are...
30) Prism
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California high school students Kaida, Zeke, and Joy fall into a parallel universe in which all resembles their normal lives except that there is no medicine nor health care, which could mean big trouble for Joy, whose arm was injured in the accident that started their troubles.
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Rebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth's England -- yet she guards secrets she dares not reveal. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter of the queen's own physician, Rebecca is also a converso -- a Jew who practices her prohibited religion clandestinely -- helping others of her banned faith escape persecution and death. And her insatiable hunger for excitement often takes her to the bustling streets of London in male garb to experience...
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Peter Decker of the L.A.P.D. never dreamed he'd be spending his honeymoon with his new wife, Rina Lazarus, in an Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn, New York -- or that a terrible event would end it so abruptly. But a boy has vanished from the midst of this close-knit religious community, a troubled youth fleeing the tight bonds and strictures he felt were strangling him. The runaway, Noam, is not traveling alone. A killer has taken him under his...
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Por su rango en el Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles, el teniente detective de Homicidios Peter Decker no recibía demasiadas llamadas de servicio a las tres de la madrugada, a menos que el caso fuera muy grave o despertara el interés de los medios de comunicación, o ambas cosas a la vez. Alguien había entrado de noche en Coyote Ranch, el lujoso rancho del constructor y millonario Guy Kaffey, y lo había matado a tiros, junto a su esposa...
35) La bestia
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Lo profesional y lo personal se cruzan de un modo traicionero en esta entrega absorbente e inquietante de Faye Kellerman
En los años que lleva en el Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles, Peter Decker ha lidiado con un cierto número de casos difíciles y asesinos raros. Pero pocos pueden compararse con su último caso, el más extraño de toda su carrera.
Cuando Hobart Penny aparece muerto en su apartamento, la policía cree que su mascota —una...
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New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying novel of suspense as a young man's investigation into his sister's death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer.
He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him.
The more you know, the more there is to fear...Four years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally...
37) El ahorcado
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Quince años atrás, Chris Whitman, en su último curso de instituto, fue a prisión por asesinar a su novia, Cheryl Diggs. Impulsado por un equivocado sentido de la caballerosidad, confesó, decidido a librar a otra compañera de clase, la hermosa y vulnerable Terry McLaughlin, de tener que testificar en su juicio. Cuando la verdad salió a la luz, Chris salió de prisión, se casó con Terry, que estaba embarazada de él, y se cambió el apellido...
38) Gun Games
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El teniente detective Peter Decker del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles y su esposa, Rina Lazarus, han acogido en su casa a Gabriel Whitman, un adolescente de quince años, hijo de una antigua amiga con problemas. Aunque el enigmático muchacho parece estar adaptándose, Decker conoce bien los secretos que guardan los adolescentes, como confirma el trágico suicidio de otro adolescente, Gregory Hesse, un estudiante de Bell and Wakefield, uno...
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The USA Today—bestselling author details how she became a crime novelist and how she created her acclaimed husband-and-wife detective team.
In 1986, Faye Kellerman introduced LAPD detective Peter Decker and widowed yeshiva teacher Rina Lazarus in her crime novel, The Ritual Bath. The debut won Kellerman the 1987 Macavity Award for Best First Novel and turned into a long-running bestselling series. But how exactly did it all come about?
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Desde la oscuridad
ìDicen que los muertos no hablan, pero, si uno escucha atentamente, claro que los oye hablarî. Por su rango en el Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles, el teniente detective de Homicidios Peter Decker no recibía demasiadas llamadas de servicio a las tres de la madrugada, a menos que el caso fuera muy grave o despertara el interés de los medios de comunicación, o ambas cosas a la vez. Alguien había entrado de noche en Coyote...
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