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The Burnt House (Mass Market Paperback)

by Faye Kellerman (Author)

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Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Harper; Reprint edition (Jul 14 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061227366
ISBN-13: 978-0061227363
Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 227 g

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #21,711 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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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.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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George Guidall is so comfortable performing the Rina Lazarus/Peter Decker series that even first-time listeners will feel right at home. In the sixteenth book featuring the married couple, a plane crash into an apartment building, a missing flight attendant, and the burned remains of a victim murdered over 20 years earlier provide plenty of mystery. Faye Kellerman builds tenderness, intelligence, and normalcy into Rina and Peters Orthodox Jewish family life and their conversations about God, guilt, and sin. She produces a convoluted (if occasionally coincidence-prone) story, but, thanks in part to Guidalls top-notch performance, her characters have the gritty feel of real people. Guidalls pacing, vocal shifts, and delivery of the many Yiddish expressions sprinkled throughout are masterful. This is one listeners wont want to miss. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Mystery!, Mar 16 2008

By	MacFly (Regina, Saskatchewan) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

This review is from: The Burnt House (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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5.0 out of 5 stars A Dense Mystery Penetrated by Careful Police Procedure, Nov 6 2007

By	Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews (#1 REVIEWER)

This review is from: The Burnt House (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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