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Overview

High school senior Chris Whitman confessed to murdering his girlfriend to spare beautiful, vulnerable Terry McLaughlin from having to testify at his trial. Years later, when the truth set Chris free, he married Terry, changed his name to Donatti . . . and became a professional killer. Now Terry's missing, Donatti's disappeared—and their teenage son, Gabe, has no one to turn to except his mother's friend, LAPD Detective Peter Decker, and Decker's wife, Rina Lazarus.

The last thing Decker wants is Terry's sociopathic husband back in his world. And the hunt for Terry must share center stage with another case when a young nurse's body is found hanging from the rafters at a construction site. Caught between two troubling investigations and an increasingly precarious home life, Decker and Rina must make a difficult decision about sheltering Terry's son . . . even as the shadow of a serial killer falls across their own imperiled family.

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In this double barrel mystery, Peter Decker deals with something old and something new. For the LAPD Lieutenant, the disappearance of a young mother and her sociopathic professional killer husband evokes disquieting memories about a 15-year-old homicide, a false confession, and its strange aftermath. While contemplating that provocative case, Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus must also solve the perplexing hanging death of a neonatal nurse party girl. Crisp plotting; some fetching false leads.
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Kellerman once again mixes mystery and soap opera in her 19th novel featuring Lt. Peter Decker of the LAPD and his wife, Rina Lazarus (after Blindman's Bluff). Terry McLaughlin, a doctor and battered wife, asks Decker, who's an old friend, to help mediate a meeting with her abusive husband. When McLaughlin disappears soon after the meeting, her 14-year-old son, Gabe, a gifted piano prodigy, is left on his own. Welcomed into the Decker/Lazarus household, Gabe is allowed to attend their youngest daughter's Jewish day school, even though he's Catholic. Meanwhile, Decker fears that an unidentified woman who's found hanged at a construction site may be Gabe's mother. Readers should be prepared for some unconvincing police procedure (members of Decker's team obliviously contaminate a crime scene) and some stilted prose ("Everything works out. Sometimes it works out good. And sometimes it works out bad. It's the bad that concerns me"), but series fans will cheer the serendipitous developments that lead to a better life for Gabe. (Aug.)
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Even though he's working an endless homicide, LAPD Lt. Peter Decker celebrates his 60th birthday by opening his house to a new child.

Believing that she'd had an abortion, Chris Donatti got into a shouting match with his wife, St. Timothy's ER physician Teresa McLaughlin. The episode would be forgettable if the argument hadn't erupted in violence and if Donatti, whom Decker first encountered 15 years ago, weren't a professional killer. Now Terry, afraid to be alone with him, begs Decker to sit in on the meeting in which she announces the terms of their separation. When she disappears the next day, the case becomes Decker's. So does the responsibility for Gabe, her 14-year-old son (though not necessarily Donatti's), who moves into Decker's house for just one night and then stays on at the insistence of Rina Lazarus, Decker's wife. And so does the death of Adrianna Blanc, a pediatric nurse at St. Tim's whose corpse is found hanging from a construction site around the corner. Adrianna's strangling, which seems linked to every felony committed in southern California and greater Las Vegas over a two-year period, ought to absorb every ounce of Decker's attention. But even though it leads him to a dozen blind alleys and two independent serial killers, it's the fate of Gabe, a gifted piano prodigy who's had to grow up awfully fast, that's more engaging.

The mystery depends on too many coincidences to take it seriously, but Kellerman (Blindman's Bluff, 2009, etc.) is more interested in the domestic details anyway.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061702617
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 4/26/2011
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 96,703
  • Series: Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series , #19
  • Product dimensions: 4.10 (w) x 6.60 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Faye Kellerman
Faye Kellerman

Faye Kellerman is the author of twenty-seven novels, including twenty New York Times bestselling mysteries that feature the husband-and-wife team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. She has also penned two bestselling short novels with her husband, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, and recently teamed up with her daughter Aliza to cowrite a young adult novel, Prism—the story of four teens in an alternate universe. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Biography

It's tempting to compare Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus to Dashiell Hammett's classic crime-solving couple, Nick and Nora Charles. But Faye Kellerman's duo, who debuted in 1983, bear more resemblance to her own husband-wife dynamic with fellow bestselling thriller author Jonathan Kellerman. Decker is an L.A. cop; wife Rina is an Orthodox Jewish mom who gets very involved in her husband's work. The series comes with a love story built in, since in the first title, Ritual Bath, Lazarus is a witness meeting Detective Decker for the first time. Over the next dozen-odd novels, the two fall in love, get married, have children and solve crimes along the way.

Kellerman, who was inspired by her husband to begin writing, is also the author of Moon Music, a contemporary thriller set in Las Vegas, and The Quality of Mercy, a historical novel of Elizabethan England. Fans needn't worry, however, that Kellerman is going to abandon the pair she is best known for. "I never tire of them," Kellerman says in an interview on her publisher's web site of Decker and Lazarus. "I like them very much, but to keep them fresh is the main reason why I have two 'outside-the-series' or 'stand alone' books. Once in a while you have to sit back and gain some perspective on these people that you are writing about year after year."

    1. Hometown:
      Beverly Hills, California
    1. Date of Birth:
      July 31, 1952
    2. Place of Birth:
      St. Louis, Missouri
    1. Education:
      B.A. in Mathematics, 1974; D.D.A., 1978

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  • Posted July 25, 2010

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    strong entry

    Los Angeles Police Department Lieutenant sexagenarian Peter Decker knows rumored New York hitman Chris Donatti and the alleged killer's wife Terry McLaughlin. He met them on a case fifteen years ago when the couple were in high school; Chris confessed to a murder he did not do to protect Terry. Now, both vanish after a fight and their young teenage son Gabe calls Peter. The cop and his wife Rina Lazarus takes the boy into their home though they worry about psychopathic Chris harming their daughter. Meanwhile Decker searches for the vanished parents.

    At the same time, Peter leads the inquiry into the brutal murder of St. Timothy Hospital's neonatal nurse Adrianna Blanc. She was found hanging at a construction site with her car still in the hospital lot. Decker and his team Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver learn the victim enjoyed booze and sex. Her boyfriend Nurse Garth Hammerling has also vanished while on vacation.

    This is a strong entry in the long running series due to the comparative analysis of two families. Decker-Lazarus is a loving unit with a strong relationship between them and with their daughter. On the other hand Donatti-McLaughlin is a dysfunctional unit with a history of violence with a piano prodigy offspring who uses music to escape his life. Although the inquires take a strange twist, fans will relish this fine police procedural as Decker fears Donatti might harm his family., but he and his spouse try to do what they believe is the right thing.

    Harriet Klausner

    9 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 8, 2010

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    Hangman is the 19th novel in the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series. And they just keep getting better and better.

    The life of a homicide detective is never dull, even if you're the boss and sometimes because you're the boss. Pete gets a blast from the past when someone from a previous case asks for help, he may be getting in over his head but he has to try. In the mean time there's a killer on the loose and it looks like there's more questions than clues.
    In this her 19th novel in the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series, you'd think that they'd start to get a little stale, well you'd be barking up the wrong tree because they are just getting better and better. Her story line is always fresh and current with what's going on in the world of crime fighting, and this time we get more than one case to solve in the tale, so more bang for our buck. Her characters are always interesting and entertaining and since we who are fans of the series know them, it's like catching up with old friends. Her main protagonists the Deckers are as always, right in the thick of things and that goes for Rina as well as Pete. It's also refreshing to see a couple who've been happily together for a long time, it gives old married people like me someone to empathize with. It's also nice to see genuine caring and giving people portrayed in literature, it gives me hope still for our world.
    Hangman stands very well on it's own, but why deny yourself the immense pleasure in really getting to know these characters, so if this is your first in the series, go back and be sure to read the rest.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 12, 2010

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    Lots of thrills and suspense!

    There are lots of twists and turns to keep the readers' interest as an old friend of Decker's needs his help to protect her from her abusive husband. Lots of thrills and suspense!

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 30, 2011

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    Good, reliable Kellerman book

    I like almost all of the Faye Kellerman books, bcs I like the main characters (Decker and Lazarus) and of course, I love the California setting. This one brings back some characters from the past - Chris Donatti and Terry McLaughlin. Now I want to go back and re-read the book that introduced them.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 5, 2010

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    Great Mystery read

    This book has some twist and turns you dont really see coming. That in and of it's self makes it a good book for me. But either way still a good read tht has a few surprises. Kellerman is a force to b reckoned with!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted August 23, 2010

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    This is the first book of this series that I have read. I'm definitely going to check out the other 18. I really enjoyed Faye's writing and the plot. If you like James Patterson, I think you'll like Faye.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 12, 2012

    HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

    i have read all of Fayue Kellerman'S, Decker/Lasarus series and enjoyed everyones one of her books. I am looking forword to Reading other books written by her.

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  • Posted January 27, 2012

    Love the Kellermans!

    I really enjoy the familarity of her characters, this edition was excellent a very good story with a great ending...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 23, 2011

    Loved it!

    Did not want to put this down from start to finish!

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  • Posted May 30, 2011

    Extremely tedious.

    Couldn't finish this one. Enough material for a good short story, perhaps a novella, padded out interminably.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 11, 2011

    Highly recommend this series

    She does not let the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series get old, wonderful plot keeps you hanging until the end
    Wonderful read

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  • Posted February 16, 2011

    Pass unless you can read for free

    This book started out strong and has a great variety of characters. The problem is that it drags in numerous places and is hurried at the finish. The plotlines are not brought to finish properly.

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  • Posted October 8, 2010

    Good Read

    This book had me right from the very beginning with the plane crash. I needed to know more. It really kept my interest and I am going to check more of Faye Kellerman's books out. Like a previous rater said if you like James Patterson you will like this book too.

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  • Posted September 2, 2010

    Don't bother

    Usually her books are a good read. Not so with this one. Trite, boring and quite plainly, a waste of time and paper. Not a good plot and the ending leaves one hanging, saying HUH?

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