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Title: Stalker: A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 0-380-81769-1 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.06 (71 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Bring Back Peter and Rina . . .
Comment: Faye Kellerman always writes a good formula thriller, with scary bad guys, fast-paced plotting, and tense endings. Because Stalker delivers these basics, it is well worth a few hours of your time.
But for Kellerman's devotees, what sets her stories apart from the other formula thrillers on the airport bookstand are her wonderful characters, Peter, Rina, and Marge, and her ability to grant us a peephole into the world of traditional Orthodox Jewry. These attributes are missing from Stalker. The story focuses primarily on Peter's daughter, Cindy, who proves herself to be neither particularly interesting nor particularly likeable. Indeed, in Stalker, Cindy seems downright obnoxious and behaves so stupidly that Faye Kellerman apparently feels the need to remind us to the point of tedium that Cindy is very smart and has an Ivy League education. Kellerman's normal gift for characterization triumphs in only one respect, revealing an endearing side to the usually boorish Scott Oliver.
As a devotee of Kellerman's other books, I was disappointed, but still managed to enjoy Stalker. If Stalker were my first Kellerman, only a five-hour layover in O'Hare would induce me to buy another.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent police procedural and character study
Comment: Faye Kellerman took a chance with this book--choosing to develop the character of Lt. Peter Decker's daughter, Cindy, also a police officer, and relegating Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, to secondary albeit important supporting roles. And she has succeeded. An exciting and engrossing plot follows 25-year-old Cindy Decker as she tries to find a niche for herself following in her father's footsteps. She navigates a treacherous path trying to maintain her independence and still be one of the "guys." She receives resistance from fellow officers because she's a "wiseass" college-educated woman, unwanted protectiveness from her father, amorous advances from one of her father's detectives, and the frightening attention of a stalker. She doggedly pursues an investigation of one of her father's murder cases--one she was unknowingly involved in--seeing it to its resolution in a slam-bang climax. Hope we'll see more of Cindy in later books. Kellerman is an engaging writer and the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series is one of the best going.
Rating: 4
Summary: Exciting and suspenseful
Comment: Cindy Decker, a new rookie cop based in Hollywood, is finding it hard to cope with the job as she is being constantly hazed by her male colleagues who resent the fact that she has a college education and even more resentful that her father is Lieutenant Peter Decker. When suspicious things start to happen to her, she is determined to go it alone and not seek advice or help from her father...big mistake, as things escalate to downright frightening. It's a great cop story with lots of twists but I couldn't help but feel that this girl who is supposed to be a mature, gun carrying police woman, needs a good slap around the legs for being so obstinate and just plain stupid!
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Title: Jupiter's Bones : A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 0380730820 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Prayers for the Dead : A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 0380726246 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Serpent's Tooth : A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 0380726254 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Forgotten by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 0380730847 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Justice by Faye Kellerman ISBN: 0380724987 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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