I do have one or two mysteries planned in March because I have noticed this month how much I turn to the genre in busier times, not just as a palette cleanser. March means daylight savings time, baseball, and spring. I will be happy in a few days time to finally turn the calendar to March. My February month of mysteries is winding down with one special buddy read left to go. She lives in Los Angeles and Santa Fe with her husband, Jonathan, their youngest child, and their French Bulldog, Hugo. She is the proud mother of four children, and her eldest son, Jesse, has just published his fourth novel, THE EXECUTOR, from Putnam. Her other hobbies include gardening, sewing and jogging if her back doesn't give out. Her personally annotated collection of her award winning stories, THE GARDEN OF EDEN and OTHER CRIMINAL DELIGHTS, was published in August of 2006. She has also written a young adult novel, PRISM, with her daughter, Aliza Kellermanįaye Kellerman's highly praised short stories and reviews have been anthologized in numerous collections including two volumes of the notable SISTERS IN CRIME SERIES, Sara Paretsky's, A WOMAN'S EYE THE FIRST ANNUAL YEAR'S FINEST CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES THE THIRD ANNUAL BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR WOMEN OF MYSTERY AND DEADLY ALLIES 11. She has also co-authored the New York Times Bestseller DOUBLE HOMICIDE, with her husband and partner in crime, Jonathan Kellerman. In addition to her crime series, Kellerman is also the author of New York Time's bestseller MOON MUSIC, a suspense horror novel set in Las Vegas featuring Detective Romulus Poe, as well as an historical novel of intrigue set in Elizabethan England, THE QUALITY OF MERCY. The novels, STALKER and STREET DREAMS, introduced Kellerman's newest protagonist, Police Officer Cindy Decker. The Decker/Lazarus thrillers include SACRED AND PROFANE MILK AND HONEY DAY OF ATONEMENT FALSE PROPHET GRIEVOUS SIN SANCTUARY as well as her New York Times Bestsellers, JUSTICE, PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD - listed by the LA Times as one of the best crime novel of 2001 SERPENT'S TOOTH JUPITER'S BONES, THE FORGOTTEN, STONE KISS, STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS, THE BURNT HOUSE, THE MERCEDES COFFIN and BLINDMAN'S BLUFF. There are well over twenty million copies of Faye Kellerman's novels in print internationally. The winner of the Macavity Award for the Best First Novel from the Mystery Readers of American, THE RITUAL BATH introduced readers to Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, termed by People Magazine "Hands down, the most refreshing mystery couple around." The New York Times enthused, "This couple's domestic affairs have the haimish warmth of reality, unlike the formulaic lives of so many other genre detectives." Kellerman's groundbreaking first novel, THE RITUAL BATH, was published in 1986 to wide critical and commercial acclaim. She earned a BA in mathematics and a doctorate in dentistry at UCLA., and conducted research in oral biology. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. The son of a gangster and an absent parent, the boy has had a life filled with too much free time, too many unexplained absences, and too little adult supervision.īefore it's over, the case and all its terrifying ramifications will take Decker and his detectives down a dark alley of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances, culminating at a heart-stopping point of no return.įaye Kellerman was born in St. Decker thought he understood kids, yet the closer he and his team get to the truth, the clearer it becomes that he knows very little about them, including his own charge, Gabe. But the case becomes darkly complicated by the suicide of another Bell and Wakefield student-a death that leads them to uncover an especially nasty group of rich and privileged students with a predilection for guns and violence. The gun used in the tragedy was stolen-evidence that propels him to launch a full investigation with his trusted team, Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver. Gregory's mother, Wendy, refuses to believe her son shot himself and convinces Decker to look deeper. While the enigmatic teen seems to be adapting easily, Decker knows only too well the secrets adolescents keep-witnessed by the tragic suicide of another teen, Gregory Hesse, a student at Bell and Wakefield, one of the city's most exclusive prep schools. LAPD lieutenant detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly welcomed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Whitman, the son of a troubled former friend, into their home. Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus are back in this gripping mystery involving a secret cabal of some of Los Angeles' most wealthy-and vicious-teens
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |