"This twenty-sixth entry in the Decker-Lazarus series will be embraced by fans for its emphasis on the lead characters and the relationship between them, as the couple’s future takes a turn, and a cliff-hanger ending guarantees anticipation for their next outing." — Booklist on The Lost Boys
“Faye Kellerman skillfully balances a familiar formula with a creative, original story... [Her] characters are still fresh, exciting, and full of surprises... Kellerman brings everything together in a well-crafted tale that is both fascinating and suspenseful.” — The Nerd Daily on The Lost Boys
“Reading a good thriller is very much like taking a great vacation: half the fun is getting there. Faye Kellerman is one heck of a tour guide.” — Detroit Free Press
“Absolutely absorbing. . . . Kellerman is terrific.” — Newsday (New York)
“Kellerman does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Kellerman succeeds brilliantly in making the search for understanding as compelling as the search for the murderer.” — Publishers Weekly
Faye Kellerman skillfully balances a familiar formula with a creative, original story... [Her] characters are still fresh, exciting, and full of surprises... Kellerman brings everything together in a well-crafted tale that is both fascinating and suspenseful.”
The Nerd Daily on The Lost Boys
Reading a good thriller is very much like taking a great vacation: half the fun is getting there. Faye Kellerman is one heck of a tour guide.
Absolutely absorbing. . . . Kellerman is terrific.”
10/19/2020
In bestseller Kellerman’s so-so 26th novel featuring married couple Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus (after 2018’s Walking Shadows ), Decker, a former LAPD detective now with the police in the “sleepy little college town” of Greenbury, N.Y., has two cases to occupy him. First, 35-year-old Bertram Lanz, who’s cognitively disabled, has gone missing from a field trip arranged by his residential facility, and after extensive searches don’t locate him, Decker fears that Lanz could have been abducted. Second, the searchers locate human skeletal remains that may belong to one of three college students who vanished a decade earlier. Lazarus has little to do apart from prepare food and give advice to her family. Drama among the extended family pads the detecting, and banal prose (“Four decades of detective work had taught Decker a thing or two. One of the delights of Missing Persons cases was that they often had happy endings. But sometimes not”) is another minus. This one’s for longtime fans only. (Jan.)
"This twenty-sixth entry in the Decker-Lazarus series will be embraced by fans for its emphasis on the lead characters and the relationship between them, as the couple’s future takes a turn, and a cliff-hanger ending guarantees anticipation for their next outing."
Booklist on The Lost Boys
Kellerman does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre.”
08/01/2020
In Fellowes's The Mitford Trial , lady's maid Louisa Cannon is asked by a shadowy stranger to spy on Diana Mitford and her sister Unity, with someone ending up dead in the water when Louisa later accompanies the Mitfords on a cruise (75,000-copy first printing). Gentill's Shanghai Secrets takes Rowland Sinclair from Australia to Shanghai in 1935 on business, but the death of a Russian taxi dancer he steered across the floor one night complicates matters. In the latest Decker/Lazarus mystery, The Lost Boys , Peter Decker believes that a developmentally disabled man who vanished while on an outing from his residential home went off with someone he knew (100,000-copy first printing; originally scheduled for October 2020). Schaffhausen's Every Waking Hour features Ellery Hathaway, who is gingerly reentering normal life as a rookie Boston detective after escaping a serial killer as a teenager when a 12-year-old girl in her care disappears (40,000-copy first printing). In Tracy's Deep into the Dark , a series launch, LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan doesn't believe that emotionally shattered Afghanistan war vet Sam Easton is responsible for a murder and joins forces with him to find the culprit. A winner of Bram Stoker and British Fantasy awards, Tremblay stretches the imagination in The Little Sleep with a South Boston private detective who suffers from narcolepsy-induced hypnagogic hallucinations that may include reality talent show star Jennifer Times trying to hire him to retrieve her stolen fingers.
Mitchell Greenberg’s performance as Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus is perfect—steady and calm, like the long-married duo themselves. Decker is looking for a missing man who is developmentally disabled. The search in the upstate New York community where Decker now plies his detective trade leads to the discovery of a corpse in the woods. It belongs to one of three men who disappeared 10 years earlier; it’s clear he did not meet a natural end. The supportive Lazarus is in her element, offering Decker good advice and great food. Greenberg does not ratchet up the tension with his narration, but he does capture the personalities of the protagonists and their affection for each other, which are the underpinnings of this long-running series. G.S. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
DECEMBER 2020 - AudioFile
Mitchell Greenberg’s performance as Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus is perfect—steady and calm, like the long-married duo themselves. Decker is looking for a missing man who is developmentally disabled. The search in the upstate New York community where Decker now plies his detective trade leads to the discovery of a corpse in the woods. It belongs to one of three men who disappeared 10 years earlier; it’s clear he did not meet a natural end. The supportive Lazarus is in her element, offering Decker good advice and great food. Greenberg does not ratchet up the tension with his narration, but he does capture the personalities of the protagonists and their affection for each other, which are the underpinnings of this long-running series. G.S. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
DECEMBER 2020 - AudioFile
