- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Warner Books (Aug 5 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0446531316
- ISBN-13: 978-0446531313
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.7 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 658 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #830,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Kellerman's latest Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel (after 2002's Stone Kiss) will please her fans, but is unlikely to make new converts. When Cindy Decker, Peter's LAPD officer daughter (who had a big role in 2000's Stalker), finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster, she sets out to track down the developmentally disabled mother, suspecting that the child may have been the product of a rape. Her fellow officers discourage her efforts, while an attempt on her life sparks conflict with an alarmed Peter. Romance occupies Cindy, an observant Jew, as much as her professional career. Conveniently, the sexy and caring black pediatric nurse who cares for the baby turns out to be an observant Ethiopian Jew who is instantly smitten with her. Other coincidences abound, including Cindy's witnessing of a fatal hit-and-run that may be connected with the sexual assault she alone believes occurred. A minor subplot concerning the murder of stepmother Rina's grandmother in 1920s Munich simply peters out. Details of Jewish religious observance amount to superficial trappings. Cindy mentions dealing with an earlier trauma through therapy, but the author never lets the reader in on any of her sessions. The solution to the crime comes almost as an afterthought in this overlong book. Others, and Kellerman herself, have done a better job of melding a mystery plot with the challenges of maintaining Jewish identity in the modern world.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Because Kellerman doesn't reprise history in her latest Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker mystery, readers new to the long-running series may find themselves frustrated by the allusions. But Decker family fans will speed through this solid whodunit, which is not only an entertaining puzzler but also takes the characters' relationships to a new level. Cindy, a rookie cop and Peter's 28-year-old daughter by his first marriage, takes center stage here. Both her rocky history with the department and with her dad come to the fore as she digs into the case of a developmentally disabled teenager who abandoned her baby, insists she was raped, and may have witnessed a murder. Following the strangely coincidental hit-and-run of another disabled teen from the same area, the case blossoms into a mystery that requires help from Peter and from Cindy's new boyfriend, an Ethiopian-born Jew who finds willowy, red-haired Cindy to be the girl of his dreams. The romance and the dialogue are a tad overdone ("you and me both, hot stuff"), but series fans won't be too concerned. Stephanie Zvirin
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Embarrassing!,
By Euryphagous (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Street Dreams (Hardcover)
I have read all in F.K.'s Decker series, and this was by far the worst. The other reviewers already noted the excessive coincidences, the silly relationship with Koby, and the disappointing subplot regarding Rina's mother. What I found most trite was that in the last pages we learn the culpret was none other than a muslim with possible terrorist links. How tedious can she get?
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dreams for Aspiring Authors,
By SlippersLadd (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Street Dreams (Hardcover)
This book gives inspiration to all author wanna-be's. Try just a bit & you'll create something better than this meager tale. This novel is downright boring. Hardly what one would term "a page turner." It lacks for excitement, suspense, enjoyment, wonder, chills and just about every reason readers gravitate toward fiction. It was my first Faye Kellerman novel & very well might be my last. However, I should keep in mind the works of Dean Koontz. Sometimes a work of art--Dark Rivers of the Heart. Sometimes a work of an over imaginative saddistic middle school student--so pathetically terrible, not worthy of mention by title. That said, Kellerman should be given the benefit of the doubt; I vow to try 1 more.Cynthia "Cindy" Decker is our leading lady. A police officer who is following in the footsteps of her, mildy camoflauged macho-macho man, police officer father. Cindy meets up with an irresistible male RN who works in a pediatric ward, no less. He's quite the smorgasboard--Jewish, Ethiopian, Black, Russian, We Are The World, nicknamed "Kobie." It doesn't get much better; as in---it's rather lame. Kobie has no life outside of the sterile walls. But...then he meets Cindy and by darned, she's also Jewish! Therein lies their only commonality. They're not natured alike; they don't think alike. No chemistry between them. Quite frankly, there is very little character development in those two. They're basically androgynous. After many chapters, we find that Cindy sees a therapist for some unknown reason & bless her heart, suggests that Kobie should see one...for some unknown reason...or maybe it's his self-professed "dark moods." Which don't seem to be more than a slight shade of gray. Not that we are ever privvy to said moods. Cindy Decker's big find/big case is an infant who is miraculously found in a dumpster. Even more miraculous is that the infant survives. And miracle of all miracles, the mother is tracked due to shared Down's Syndrome. In Los Angeles! Amazing. The true miracle here is how this book made it to a publisher. My cat seems to have more extraordinary street dreams.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very disappointed,
By mammoth "booscout3" (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Street Dreams (Mass Market Paperback)
I find it difficult to believe that readers have given STREET DREAMS four and five stars. So far, I'm on page 311, most of it has been redundant and boring. If Cindy whines and repeats herself much more, I'll have to scream. I usually enjoy Faye Kellerman a lot. This time I'm tempted to simply put the book down for good. Sorry folks.
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