Faye Kellerman_Decker & Lazarus 04
by Day of Atonement
From Publishers WeeklyKellerman's fourth mystery to feature Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus lacks the passion and suspense of earlier outings. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalWhen Los Angeles detective Peter Decker and new wife Rina Lazarus visit her Jewish kinfolks in Brooklyn, startling events disturb their honeymoon. Quite unexpectedly and with great antipathy, Decker--an adoptee--recognizes his natural mother at a holiday gathering. Before he can confront her, though, her troubled 14-year-old grandson goes missing and Decker, fortuitously on hand, begins the search. Soon after he learns that the boy has taken up with a dangerously disturbed and vicious young man, the scene switches to Los Angeles. Hard-hitting details, vignettes of Jewish life, and uncomfortably close glimpses of a cold-hearted psycho make this an entrancing page turner. Not to be missed.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.