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A coincidence so improbable that a character comments on it renders bestseller Kellerman's 16th novel to feature Lt. Peter Decker of the LAPD and wife Rina Lazarus (after 2003's Street Dreams) one of the series' lesser entries. After a commuter airplane crashes into an apartment building shortly after takeoff from Burbank Airport, Decker and his team investigate what many fear was a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, the parents of Roseanne Dresden, a flight attendant, suspect that their daughter was murdered by her stockbroker husband, Ivan, who claims his wife joined the doomed flight at the last minute. Roseanne was considering divorce, and Ivan stood to lose financially. As the probes into the crash and into Roseanne's fate converge, readers will find it a challenge to suspend disbelief. Fans of the extended Decker-Lazarus clan will enjoy catching up with old friends, but those looking for a plausible police procedural may be disappointed. (Aug.)
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Praise for Faye Kellerman: 'Very exciting.' Daily Mail 'Brutal but thoughtful and well-plotted, fast-moving and well told.' Observer 'Sensational.' Mirror 'Kellerman creates a claustrophobic atmosphere, against a background of seediness, violence and distrust.' Sunday Telegraph 'Kellerman moves her gritty mean streets LA plot along with breakneck pace.' Irish Independent
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Mystery!,
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This review is from: The Burnt House: A Peter Decker/rina Lazarus Novel (Hardcover)
The Burnt House was not at all what I imagined it to be based on the title. This book follows a veteran police officer and his staff as they try deal with the unimaginable - a commuter plane that has crashed into an apartment building. Months later there is still one woman unaccounted for from the flight and that's when the real police work begins. Working tirelessly to try and find some clue as to what happened to this person soon becomes even more complicated when another body is found, but this one has been hidden for 30 years! Are these two cases related? Is it possible that there is a connection between these two missing women? These are the questions that keep you guessing and wanting to read more. Following in the footsteps of Sergeant Decker and his team is exhausting at times and you feel like you're going no where in the book, but once the pieces do start falling into place, it's a must read until the very end. I did enjoy this book and all the main characters and would read another one from this author again.
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Kellerman Novel a Good Intro to Decker Series,
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This review is from: The Burnt House: A Peter Decker/rina Lazarus Novel (Hardcover)
This was my first experience reading a Faye Kellerman novel. I found The Burnt House an enjoyable read, good story, plausible characters,good writing,but the plot was a little anticlimactic at the end. Also, I figured out the killers early on. It's a sound police procedural though and Ms. Kellerman's love and knowledge of Californai and Santa Fe, New Mexico come through in spades.It makes me want to check out some of her other novels. James A Anderson, Author Deadline
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A Dense Mystery Penetrated by Careful Police Procedure,
By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 112,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (#1 HALL OF FAME)
This review is from: The Burnt House: A Peter Decker/rina Lazarus Novel (Hardcover)
This book will delight those who like mysteries that are very difficult to solve before the author reveals the story's resolution.If you mainly read the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus books to focus on their life together, you'll think this is one of the worst books in the series. If you like puzzles, however, you'll feel fully rewarded by the challenging of determining what happened to flight attendant, Roseanne Dresden. Along the way, you'll pick up some unexpected twists that also make for good mystery reading. This plot relies on a lot of coincidences. That can be troubling for a reader to swallow, but in real life coincidence occurs so often that we often don't even bother to remark on it. There is a subgenre of police procedural that relies on having more than one case mixed up in an investigation. I thought that the premise for this mystery was stronger than most books in that subgenre. But what distinguished the book was that the resolutions proved to be so difficult to anticipate. I dislike mysteries where you can see the solution beginning to take shape around page 50. In this case, Ms. Kellerman did an excellent job of keeping the resolution hidden until very near the end. From reading this book, I hope that Ms. Kellerman will write more books that contain difficult puzzles whose solutions only gradually reveal themselves through police investigations. Bravo, Ms. Kellerman!
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