Helpful Score: 3
2nd book in Faye Kellerman's series does not disappoint. Love the rising tension between Decker and Rina and the unfolding relationship he has with her sons. The case itself is thick with twists and turns. Highly recommend.
Helpful Score: 2
Excellent mystery and twists and turns. Great Faye Kellerman novel.
Helpful Score: 2
Faye Kellerman manages to combine a solid police mystery with the conflict of two people who love each other, but have very different religious beliefs.
Helpful Score: 2
I liked the first book of the series better than this one, but the other books that I have read in the series so far have been pretty good. I can't wait to see what happens next!
Shirley E. (luvantiques) -
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This is the second of the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novels. You find out more about their developing relationship along with a gruesome double murder that Detective Decker is trying to solve. Truely a riveting story with very good character development, Faye Kellerman has become a favorite author of mine. Her books are ones you don't want to put down!!
Helpful Score: 1
Murder in the beautiful foothills above LA. Police detective Peter Decker finds himself emotionally involved in solving these crimes.
Exciting.
Exciting.
Helpful Score: 1
Character are well developed. Compelling story and characters. The events keep one enthralled and it is a murder that keeps you guessing.
Lots of twists and turns in this book, keeps you guessing.
Wondeful part of there series Peter & Rina
Sheryl S. (bibliocat) -
Great series...make sure you read it in order... better that way... first one is Ritual Bath
In this book, Peter Decker is trying to find the identies of two skeletons found in the forest by his girlfriend's son.
Excellent page turner!!!!
This is the second book in the Decker and Lazarus series. This time around as Peter Decker is trying to become closer to Rina Lazarus and her sons. He takes the two young boys camping in the hills where they stumble onto two burned skeletons. The case hits close to home when the two victims turn out to teenage girls. Peter is especially drawn into the case as a father of a sixteen year old girl himself.
Another good solid mystery and the more Peter is drawn to Rina the deeper he and the reader are drawn into her world as an orthodox jew.
Another good solid mystery and the more Peter is drawn to Rina the deeper he and the reader are drawn into her world as an orthodox jew.
This takes place before Peter and Rina marry. They are having a troubled relationship.
this is a great read!
Love Faye Kellerman's books and this is another good one.
Katie F. (KatieFeldmom) reviewed Sacred and Profane (Decker/Lazarus, Bk 2) on + 57 more book reviews
The SECOND book in the series featuring Peter Decker, LAPD detective and Rina Lazarus, his wife in Los Angeles, California.
2nd in series of Peter Decker & Rina. Better than the 1st in series. Peter & Rina's sons discover charred remains while camping. Peter is on the case. Book is in Good condition.
On a camping trip with his sons Det. Peter Decker discovers human remains. He launches himself into a personal investigation that takes him into the crack dens of Hollywood Blvd.
Barbara B. (redhatter) reviewed Sacred and Profane (Decker/Lazarus, Bk 2) on + 577 more book reviews
LAPD Detective Peter Decker has grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. Then Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight. Two human skeletons, cgarred beyond recognition, are identified by a forensic dentist as teenage girls - and for Decker, the father of a 16 year-old daughter, the vacation is over.
Kellerman's LAPD Detective Peter Decker is one of my favorite protagonists in the mystery genre.
I'm not usually a reader of detective stories, but between the romance between Decker & Rina and the elements of orthodox Judaism, this series has won me over. For these reasons, I was glad I read this book. However, I don't think I'd want to read it again. Romance and Faith did not play as big a role in this the second book of the series as it did in the first. Also, the crimes were particularly disturbing.
Michelle S. (Shellyphaunts) reviewed Sacred and Profane (Decker/Lazarus, Bk 2) on + 7 more book reviews
I had a hard time putting this book down! Another great story in the series! The characters are wonderful!
A few wrinkles, very few.
marvelous series
From the book cover, "Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. A nice repreive from the grueling work of a homicide cop - until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight...
Two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition, are identified by a forensic dentist as teenage girls - and of Decker, the father of a sixteen-year-old daughter, vacation time is over. Throwing himself professionally and emotionally into the murder case, he launches a very personal investigation: a quest that pulls him deep into the crack dens of Hollywood Boulevard and painfully close to the children of the streets and a nightmare world he must make his own."
Two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition, are identified by a forensic dentist as teenage girls - and of Decker, the father of a sixteen-year-old daughter, vacation time is over. Throwing himself professionally and emotionally into the murder case, he launches a very personal investigation: a quest that pulls him deep into the crack dens of Hollywood Boulevard and painfully close to the children of the streets and a nightmare world he must make his own."
