Faye Kellerman
Author
Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 18
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 18
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 18
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees. While Decker leads his homicide team throughout California and into Mexico, he thinks his own wife is on jury back at the courthouse. But a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the heart of the murder investigation, and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On a quiet suburban street in upstate Greenbury, New York, the brutally beaten body of a young man is discovered in the woods adjacent to an empty vacation home. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil a resident of the neighboring town of Hamilton, had no criminal record, few friends, worked full-time, and attended community college. But as Detective Peter Decker learns, the clean-cut kid is linked to the criminal world. When Brady was a baby, his father,...
3) Hangman
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favor for an old friend, Teresa McLaughlin, but when she and her husband disappear, Decker's search is interrupted by the suspicious death of a young health care worker.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this next compulsive novel in bestselling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus series.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
While working for the Greenbury Police Department in upstate New York, Peter Decker must draw from his years of experience as a homicide cop when a break-in at the local cemetery leads him into a world of art forgery and murder that is linked to cold case crimes, international intrigue and ruthless people who kill for sport.
As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now, he and his devoted...
7) The beast
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Over the years, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus have got through a lot together. They've faced more than their share of serial killers and psychopaths. But this time two very different cases may cause them to re-evaluate everything they hold dear. One case involves Gabe, the troubled boy they've taken into their home. The other is much stranger - a man is found dead in his apartment, apparently mauled by his pet tiger. There is more to each case than...
8) The hunt
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the biological mother of Peter and his wife Rina's foster son is brutally beaten and her children taken, Peter, Rina, and Gabe's biological father, a former hitman-turned-millionaire, race against time to rescue them, ending in an explosive confrontation from which no one will emerge unscathed.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Bertram Lanz goes missing from a local diner near Greenbury, the entire community of the small upstate New York town volunteers to search the surrounding woods in hopes of finding him. Bertram had been on a field trip with the staff and fellow residents of the Loving Care Home when he vanished. When no trace of the man is found, the disappearance quickly becomes an official missing persons case and is assigned to detectives Peter Decker and...
10) Gun games
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[Kellerman] does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre."
-Richmond Times-Dispatch
"No one working in the crime genre is better."
-Baltimore Sun
In Gun Games, the sensational Faye Kellerman once again showcases Peter Decker of the LAPD and Rina Lazarus, arguably the most popular husband and wife team in contemporary crime fiction. A rash of shocking adolescent suicides at an elite Los...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Manhattan rabbi is brutally murdered, an LAPD officer and his wife begin a dangerous mission to save a young girl from kidnapping — and investigate a deadly new case that puts them both at great peril.
Rina Lazarus has some shocking news for her husband, LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker. A horrible murder has occurred in the family of his half-brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levin. The rabbi's brother-in-law was found slain in a seedy...
Rina Lazarus has some shocking news for her husband, LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker. A horrible murder has occurred in the family of his half-brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levin. The rabbi's brother-in-law was found slain in a seedy...
12) Justice
Author
Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 8
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 8
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 8
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold "killer eyes" cannot soothe Decker's inner torment. For he knows in his gut this crime goes much deeper and higher than anyone expects and that true justice, brutal and complete, has yet to be done....
13) The burnt house
Author
Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 16
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 16
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
At 8:15 in the morning, a small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, California. Shock waves ripple through Los Angeles, as L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime to calm rampant fears of a 9/11-type terror attack. But a grisly mystery lives inside the plane's charred and twisted wreckage: the unidentified bodies of four extra travelers. And there is no sign of an airline employee...
Author
Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 10
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 10
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man walks into a trendy Los Angeles restaurant -- a disgruntled ex-employee with an automatic weapon -- and seconds later, thirteen people are dead and thirty-two more have been wounded. It is a heinous act of mass slaughter that haunts Homicide Detective Peter Decker.
But, though eyewitnesses saw only the lone gunman -- who apparently took his own life after his bloody work was done -- evidence suggests more than one weapon was fired. It is a...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
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,
...Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 11
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 11
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 11
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 17
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 17
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker and Lazarus novel volume Bk. 17
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A cold case turns red hot, threatening to consume everyone it touches, when a billionaire genius sees similaries between the fifteen-years-ago execution style murder of her favorite teacher, and the recent murder of a Hollywood music producer.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. A nice reprieve from the grueling work of a homicide cop-until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight...Two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition, are identified by a forensic dentist as teenage girls--and for Decker, the father of a sixteen-year-old...
20) The Ritual Bath
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
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...