A psychopath's teenage son falls in love. Lt. Peter Decker, LAPD, and his wife Rina, a grandma supplying kosher treats to the children and grandkids, have taken on the task of fostering Gabe, a 15-year-old piano prodigy, whose mom has abandoned him and whose dad, hit man Chris Donatti, has settled in Nevada to operate a chain of brothels. After a standoff with a posse of threatening school bullies led by Dylan Lashay, Gabe meets and falls for Yasmine, 14, a Persian Jew and opera aficionado. They keep their romance secret from her Orthodox parents, but text incessantly and meet every morning before school at the Coffee Bean. Decker meanwhile tries to discover why two teens at Bell and Wakefield prep school have committed suicide with stolen guns within six weeks of each other. When Dylan's main squeeze, the sexually manipulative Cameron, approaches Gabe and he turns her down, her revenge includes bogus cries of rape and a kidnapping at gunpoint. Decker and coppers Dunn and Oliver swoop in and confiscate evidence that will not only support Gabe and Yasmine's version of what went on but tie Dylan and his hotheads to at least one of the suicides. Kellerman (Hangman, 2010, etc.) stakes out her claim as the mordant Judy Blume. If you're not particularly engaged by the sexual arousal of pubescent first-timers, you can skip to the final vignette, which puts the focus back on adult misdemeanors.
“[Kellerman] does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre.”
-Richmond Times-Dispatch
“No one working in the crime genre is better.”
-Baltimore Sun
In Gun Games, the sensational Faye Kellerman once again showcases Peter Decker of the LAPD and Rina Lazarus, arguably the most popular husband and wife team in contemporary crime fiction. A rash of shocking adolescent suicides at an elite Los Angeles private school is at the heart of this gripping thriller that also focuses on the troubled teen Decker and Lazarus have brought into their home: Gabriel Whitman, the son of a psychopath. Herself one-half of one of noir fiction's true “power couples”-along with her husband, acclaimed mystery writer Jonathan Kellerman-Faye Kellerman once again demonstrates how American police procedural writing is done to perfection with Gun Games.
“[Kellerman] does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre.”
-Richmond Times-Dispatch
“No one working in the crime genre is better.”
-Baltimore Sun
In Gun Games, the sensational Faye Kellerman once again showcases Peter Decker of the LAPD and Rina Lazarus, arguably the most popular husband and wife team in contemporary crime fiction. A rash of shocking adolescent suicides at an elite Los Angeles private school is at the heart of this gripping thriller that also focuses on the troubled teen Decker and Lazarus have brought into their home: Gabriel Whitman, the son of a psychopath. Herself one-half of one of noir fiction's true “power couples”-along with her husband, acclaimed mystery writer Jonathan Kellerman-Faye Kellerman once again demonstrates how American police procedural writing is done to perfection with Gun Games.
Gun Games (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series #20)
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| BN ID: | 2940170096909 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 01/03/2012 |
| Series: | Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series , #20 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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