- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (July 30 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0446530387
- ISBN-13: 978-0446530385
- Product Dimensions: 15.9 x 3.2 x 23.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,929,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Family business can be deadly, as Peter Decker discovers in Kellerman's latest thriller starring the L.A. police lieutenant and his wife, Rina Lazarus. Decker's half-brother Jonathan, a New York rabbi, asks for help when his wife's brother Ephraim Leiber is slain execution-style in a seedy New York hotel room, and the victim's teenage niece Shayndie, who may have witnessed her uncle's murder, disappears. But it soon becomes apparent that not everyone is as eager for Decker's assistance as Jonathan--not the New York City cops, not the missing girl's parents, and not the police chief in the upstate town of Quinton, where the Liebers live in a tightly knit Orthodox Jewish enclave. Despite these roadblocks, the ever resourceful Decker manages to locate Shayndie in the last place one might expect to find a devout, gently raised 15-year old girl--the heavily guarded Manhattan apartment of Chris Donatti, a Mob-connected criminal with whom Peter has a complicated history. But when Shayndie runs away from Donatti's loft and turns up dead a few days later, Decker's search for her killer uncovers a deadly family secret that puts his life--and Rina's--in jeopardy. As usual in this outstanding series, Kellerman's pacing is flawless, her plotting ingenious, and her deep understanding of human nature reconfirmed. --Jane Adams
From Publishers Weekly
Raw. Brutal. Ugly. And, of course, riveting. L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker, an orthodox Jew, answers a call for help from his half-brother, Jonathan, in this 14th tale (after 2001's The Forgotten) from bestseller Kellerman. Ephraim Lieber, Jonathan's brother-in-law, has been found murdered in a seedy Manhattan hotel. Ephraim's 15-year-old niece, Shaynda, who was supposed to be with him, is missing. Reluctantly, Peter agrees to fly to New York to assess the situation, advise the family and perhaps consult with the police investigating the crime. Wife Rina and daughter Hannah accompany him to make the trip something of a vacation as well. The bare questions of the case are difficult and delicate enough (had Ephraim, a recovering drug addict, backslid? was his relationship with Shaynda abusive? what part did other family relationships play?). Peter is quickly caught up in a desperate attempt to find and save the girl while battling an intransigent family, unfamiliar territory and reckless killers. Worse, his best ally in this impossible situation is Chris Donatti, first encountered in Justice (1995), a psychotic, mob-connected killer and maker of pornographic films. Whether Kellerman is depicting the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community or a pornographer's studio, she is utterly convincing. Amid the wreckage of lives taken or thrown away, Kellerman's heroes find glimmers of hope and enough moral ambiguity to make even her most evil villain look less than totally black.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Well-Plotted, Fast-Moving Thriller,
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This review is from: Stone Kiss (Mass Market Paperback)
L.A. Police Lieutenant Pete Decker gets a call from his half-brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levine. The Levines live in New York and Jonathan is seeking Decker's help. His brother-in-law has been found murdered in a seedy hotel room and his fifteen year-old niece, who he had supposedly been watching that day, had disappeared. Jonathan wants Decker to fly to New York to help the family.Decker's investigations in New York and Quinton, the town where the victim lived as part of an Orthodox Jewish enclave, are unwelcome to just about everybody, from the police in both cities to the missing girl's parents. And when a hitman from Decker's past enters the picture, things quickly get worse. Brutal but thoughtful, Stone Kiss is well-plotted, fast-moving, well-told and I highly recommend it.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another Winner from Faye,
By Wendy Kaplan (Houston) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stone Kiss (Mass Market Paperback)
All of the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novels by Faye Kellerman are fast reads, and "Stone Kiss" is no exception.Peter and Rina find themselves in the ultra-orthodox Jewish enclave of Brooklyn, NY, where Peter has been summoned by his half brother, Jonathan, to investigate the murder of Jonathan's brother-in-law, Ephraim Lieber. Peter is reluctant to get involved. He has no police jurisdiction in New York, he is without his usual sources and backup, and the entire Lieber family, grieving for their lost relative--and, coincidentally, Ephraim's teenaged niece, Shayndie, is treating Peter like dirt. Peter is all for turning right around and going home, but like always, becomes deeply entwined in the mystery, which involves more twists and turns, more mysteries, than anyone shoud have to face. In addition to the missing girl and the murdered uncle, something is very strange about the surviving brother, Chaim, father of the girl--who all but kicks Decker out with his boot while nevertheless garbed in the pious garb of the ultra-orthodox. It's strange alright--and gets even stranger when the mystery drops Decker right in the lap of mobster Chris Donatti, with whom Decker has a long and complicated history. The mystery continues almost right up to the last page, and as always, there is no ends-tightly-sewn-together, pat ending. This is a good read, another Faye Kellerman winner, and I highly recommend it.
4.0 out of 5 stars
An unusual joining of different worlds,
By elvistcob@lvcm.com (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stone Kiss (Hardcover)
If you describe just the crime and apprehension of the criminals in most novels, and nothing else, you'd see a pattern of sameness that makes most of these stories boring after awhile. Especially the apprehension part. It's frustrating in some good stories, even in the ones where there is good storytelling to see it end in a shootout. So what makes crime novels worth reading (and reviewing) are the worlds created in these stories. That's what I judge this type of book on.And so it goes with this story. A Los Angeles detective returns to New York after a long absence to investigate the killing of a relative. A twist in this one is that the dead man's teenage niece, the last person to see him alive, is missing. And here is where it gets good. The family of the murdered man is Jewish, which wouldn't be anything unusual, except that several are very Orthodox. This starts to make it good because the very rigid lives these folks lead, or at least are supposed to lead, provide stark contrast to where the story goes next. It is here where we are taken into the world of runaway girls, pornography, prostitution, drug dealing, and organized crime. It's a very gritty world without a lot of joy, but I'll only reveal that the protagonists search takes him there. Whether the missing girl is involved in any of this, or to what extent the other Orthodox practitioners are I will leave to you to find out by reading it. Let's just say that all people are well, human, and it's a good thing the God they believe in is a forgiving one.
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