Фэй Келлерман – лучшие книги

Маньяк-убийца расстреливает посетителей роскошного ресторана в одном из фешенебельных кварталов Голливуда, после чего пускает себе пулю в висок. Казалось бы, все ясно, псих-одиночка, устроивший страшную бойню, мертв и дело можно закрывать. Однако, основываясь только на догадках и мелких несоответствиях, не имея никаких улик и доказательств, лейтенант Декер выдвигает гипотезу, согласно которой расстрел в ресторане - тщательно спланированная акция, призванная замаскировать убийство двух вполне конкретных людей.

In the silent pre-dawn city hours - alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, 3,000 miles away in New York - L.A.P.D. detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered in blood that is not his. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps forward to claim the little girl. Obsessed more deeply by this case than he imagined possible, Decker is determined to follow the scant clues to an answer.
But his trail is leading him to a killing ground where four bodies lie still and lifeless. And by the time Rina returns, Peter Decker is already held fast in a sticky mass of hatred, passion, and murder - in a world where intense sweetness is accompanied by a deadly sting.

In Santa Fe, Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz are called to the scene of a blunt-force homicide. Did the deceased, a wealthy art dealer, stumble on a burglar stealing a priceless painting, or did one of his many enemies finally seek revenge?

Dorothy Breton is called to downtown Boston to find that her elder son is a witness to the killing of a promising athlete in a shoot-out. The evidence is stacked against the obvious culprit - until the autopsy shows the young man didn't die of gunshot wounds . . .

A 3 A.M. phone call summons LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker to the well-fortified Coyote Ranch compound of billionaire developer Guy Kaffey.

Murder, a missing woman, and a sociopath from the past sweep Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus into a labyrinth of mystery and danger in this electrifying new tale of suspense from "New York Times" bestselling author Faye Kellerman... Fifteen years ago, high school senior Chris Whitman went to jail for murdering his girlfriend, Cheryl Diggs. Propelled by a misguided sense of chivalry, he confessed, determined to save another classmate, the beautiful and vulnerable Terry McLaughlin, from having to testify at his trial. When the truth came out, Chris was released from prison, married Terry-pregnant with his child-and changed his last name to…

El teniente detective Peter Decker del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles y su esposa, Rina Lazarus, han acogido en su casa a Gabriel Whitman, un adolescente de quince años, hijo de una antigua amiga con problemas. Aunque el enigmático muchacho parece estar adaptándose, Decker conoce bien los secretos que guardan los adolescentes, como confirma el trágico suicidio de otro adolescente, Gregory Hesse, un estudiante de Bell and Wakefield, uno de los institutos más exclusivos de la ciudad.Wendy, la madre de Gregory, se niega a creer que su hijo se pegara un tiro y convence a Decker para que investigue más. Lo que este descubre le inquieta. La pistola utilizada en la tragedia era robada, prueba que le impulsa a abrir una investigación en profundidad. Pero el caso se complica con el suicidio de otro estudiante de Bell and Wakefield, una muerte que les lleva a destapar a un despreciable grupo de estudiantes ricos y privilegiados con un gusto excesivo por las armas y la violencia. Decker pensaba que entendía a los jóvenes y, sin embargo, cuanto más se acercan a la verdad su equipo y él, más cuenta se da de lo poco que sabe de ellos, incluyendo al muchacho que tiene a su cargo, Gabe. Hijo de un mafioso y de una madre ausente, el chico ha llevado una vida con demasiado tiempo libre, demasiadas ausencias injustificadas y muy poca supervisión adulta.Antes de concluir, el caso y sus terroríficas repercusiones llevarán a Decker y a sus detectives por un callejón oscuro de lealtades retorcidas y alianzas infames, culminando en un vertiginoso punto de no retorno.Consigue en esta excelente novela el equilibrio entre los aspectos criminales de la trama y un buen ambiente familiar.ANIKA entre libros

A disappearance...
When Bertram Lanz, a disabled man, goes missing from a local diner, detective Peter Decker is put on the case. He soon realizes there is more to the disappearance than meets the eye when he discovers Lanz's nurse is missing too, and blood is found in her house.
A body...
Then, while combing the woods, searchers discover the remains of a young man who vanished during a camping trip years ago.
A detective facing his toughest case yet...
Juggling a hot case and a cold case, Decker races to find justice for the families. But as the answers become ever more elusive, he is forced to question if the woods will ever give up their dark secrets... and if these intertwining cases will ever be solved.

Desde la oscuridad

ìDicen que los muertos no hablan, pero, si uno escucha atentamente, claro que los oye hablarî. Por su rango en el Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles, el teniente detective de Homicidios Peter Decker no recibía demasiadas llamadas de servicio a las tres de la madrugada, a menos que el caso fuera muy grave o despertara el interés de los medios de comunicación, o ambas cosas a la vez. Alguien había entrado de noche en Coyote Ranch, el lujoso rancho del constructor y millonario Guy Kaffey, y lo había matado a tiros, junto a su esposa y cuatro de sus empleados. Peter, sus detectives Scott Oliver y Marge Dunn y el resto de su equipo de investigación de homicidios no tardaron en averiguar que aquellos truculentos asesinatos eran obra de alguien que pertenecía al entorno de la familia. ¿Se trataba únicamente de un robo y un asesinato, o formaba parte de algo aún más retorcido?

El ahorcado

Quince años atrás, Chris Whitman, en su último curso de instituto, fue a prisión por asesinar a su novia, Cheryl Diggs. Impulsado por un equivocado sentido de la caballerosidad, confesó, decidido a librar a otra compañera de clase, la hermosa y vulnerable Terry McLaughlin, de tener que testificar en su juicio. Cuando la verdad salió a la luz, Chris salió de prisión, se casó con Terry, que estaba embarazada de él, y se cambió el apellido por el de Donatti. Peter Decker fue el detective encargado del caso y, a lo largo de los años, mantuvo el contacto con Terry. Ahora su amiga estaba en Los Ángeles y le pedía un favor, pero el favor no tardó en complicarse cuando Terry y Donatti desaparecieron. Pero Decker tuvo que compaginar la búsqueda de Terry con un truculento asesinato.

LAPD Detective Peter Decker is about to face a case that will push him to the limit...Residents in a local building have been complaining of a smell coming from an apartment rented by the eccentric inventor Hobart Penny. Nearly ninety-years-old, and a hermit for the last 25 years, it is not surprising that the reclusive genius has died without anyone's knowledge. However, as Decker steps inside, it's clear that Penny has died from anything but natural causes...Penny's children describe their father as a cruel and vindictive man. His second wife knew a man with strange sexual appetites, while the owner of a Californian animal charity speaks only of a kind-hearted old man. But further searches not only add to the list of suspects, but find evidence of a disturbed, depraved mind. So just who was Hobart Penny? A brilliant inventor, a generous philanthropist or a callous killer?

In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman’s bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome, decades old, unsolved murders, pointing to a diabolical, serial killer who’s been hiding in plain sight.

On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical evidence at the gravesite: a youthful skeleton, a skull wound and long dark strands of hair surrounding the bony frame. As Decker and his partner, Tyler McAdams, further investigate, they realize that they’re most likely dealing with a missing student from the nearby Five Colleges of Upstate—a well-known and well-respected consortium of higher learning where Rina works.

And when more human remains are found in the same area, Decker and McAdams know this isn’t just a one-off murder case. Short-staffed and with no convenient entry into the colleges, Decker enlists Rina’s help to act as the eyes and ears of campus gossip. Winding their way through a dangerous labyrinth of steely suspects and untouchable academics, Decker, McAdams, and Rina race to protect their community from a psychopathic killer still in the area—and on the hunt for a fresh victim.

Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times best-selling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus series.

Former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is relishing the quiet and slow pace of his new job with the Greenbury police department. The work is low stress and engaging, and it's been almost a year since the last murder in this sleepy upstate New York town.

Then the body of a nude man is found deep within the woods, shattering Decker's peace. The death appears to be a suicide - a single shot to the head, the gun by his side. But until the coroner's ruling, the scene must be treated as a suspicious crime. Without any personal effects near the body, Decker must dig to uncover his identity, a task made difficult by the department's tight budget and limited personnel. Luckily Decker gets some unexpected help when his friend and former Greenbury colleague, Tyler McAdams, calls, looking for a quiet place to study for his law finals.

The investigation takes Decker and McAdams to Kneed Loft College, where they must penetrate the indecipherable upper echelons of mathematics and mathematical prodigies. Beneath the school's rarified atmosphere, they discover a sphere of scheming academics, hidden cyphers, and - most dangerous of all - a realm of underworld crime that transforms harmless nerds into cold, calculating evil geniuses. It will take all of Decker's experience and McAdams' brains to penetrate enigmatic formulas and codes and solve a dark, twisted crime devised by some brilliant and depraved masterminds.

An investigation of an 18 year old cold case re-awakens spine-chilling secrets in the riveting new thriller from Faye Kellerman, featuring LA detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus The savage murder of beloved teacher Bennett Little shocked a community and baffled police. That his killer was never caught has haunted one of his pupils in particular, the gifted but shy Genoa Greeves. Eighteen years later, software billionaire Genoa reads of a similar carjacking and murder in Hollywood. Now able to wield enormous influence, she pressures the LAPD to direct Lieutenant Peter Decker to re-open the case and solve the homicides. With Decker facing nothing but cold trails and dead leads, he enlists the help of his daughter, Hollywood detective Cindy, as well as Rina, his wife. It's a decision he may come to regret as the line between cops and robbers gets dangerously blurred. Now Decker's cold case is re-awakening treacherous secrets in a city where the price of fame has no limits...

New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus embark on a new life in upstate New York—and find themselves entangled in deception, intrigue, and murder in an elite, picturesque college town.

As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now he and his spirited wife, Rina Lazarus, are ready to enjoy the quiet beauty of upstate New York, where they can be closer to their four adult children, grandchildren, and their foster son, Gabe.

But working for the Greenbury Police Department isn't as fulfilling as Decker hoped. While Rina has adapted beautifully to their new surroundings, Decker is underwhelmed and frustrated by his new partner, Tyler McAdams, a former Harvard student and young buck with a bad attitude. Just when he thinks he's made a mistake, Decker is called to an actual crime—a possible break-in at the local cemetery.

The call seems like a false alarm until it's discovered that a mausoleum's stunning Tiffany panels have been replaced by forgeries. Soon the case escalates into murder: a co-ed at an exclusive consortium of liberal-arts colleges is brutally slaughtered. Poking into the hallowed halls of academia to find a killer, Decker and McAdams are drawn deep into a web of nasty secrets, cold-case crimes, international intrigue, and ruthless people who kill for sport.

Suddenly Decker's job is anything but boring, and the case might be too much to handle for a sleepy town that hasn't seen a murder for nearly a quarter century. Decker will need to use every bit of his keen mind, his thirty years of experience as a homicide cop, and much-appreciated help from family and old friends to stop a callous killer and uncover a cabal so bizarre that it defies logic.

Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Peter Decker, are shocked by an outrage that cuts close to the spiritual heart of their family. Rina's small storefront synagogue has been desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti and grisly Nazi death camp photographs. The alleged perpetrator is 17-year-old Ernesto Golding, a "rich kid" obsessed with haunting suspicions about the origins of his Polish paternal grandfather.

Then Ernesto is found brutally murdered, along with his therapist, Dr. Mervin Baldwin, at an exclusive nature camp that caters to moneyed, troubled children. For Decker and his wife, unraveling the truth behind Ernesto's violent death becomes more terrifying with each sinister twist. For lethal secrets with roots in the horrors of a past genteration are coming to the surface, propelling Peter and Rina into a ghastly world of ruthless parents and damaged youth - and toward a dark evil and its ultimate retribution.

The ninth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye KellermanYou never know who is hiding the darkest of secrets…Dr Azor Sparks is a model citizen – a devoted family man, a talented heart surgeon and a pillar of the local church. So when he is brutally murdered in a deserted alley, there is a public outcry.Detective Peter Decker immediately realises though that all is not as it seems in Azor’s life. He has made enemies among his colleagues, a gang of bikers counts him as an associate, and his six children seem intent on tearing each other apart.Most unsettling of all, though, is that Decker uncovers a dark secret shared between one of Azor’s children, now a Catholic priest, and his own wife, Rina. Will he be able to ensure justice is served without hurting those he loves most?

The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff shortages. And when a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery, Peter and Rina fear for the safety of their own precious child - especially when the missing nurse's car is found at the bottom of a cliff... with a corpse inside.

A most grievous sin has been committed. In pursuit of justice, Decker - with the help of his tough-as-nails partner, Marge, and an able assist from his teenage daughter, Cindy - follows a twisted path that winds through a sinister maze of hospital politics, misplaced passions, and torturous mind games that can all too easily lead to murder.

Summoned to investigate the murder of a high school prom queen, LAPD detective Sergeant Peter Decker is immersed in a rootless world where young lives are punctuated by mindless sex, illicit drugs, and tenuous links to reality. When a prime suspect is identified, Decker has the feeling that the case has not been exhaustively covered--certain facts just don't add up.

L.A. Homicide Detective Peter Decker never wanted the perils of his job to touch his family. But now his two worlds have collided.

A first year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, Cynthia Decker became a cop against her father, Peter Decker's, wishes. But police work is in her blood, and she's determined to make it on her own -- even now, when her razor sharp instincts for danger are telling her that something is very wrong....

The signs are impossible to ignore: things being moved around in her apartment, the destruction of personal effects. But it's a harrowing trip down a dark canyon road that confirms Cindy's worst fears. Someone fiendishly relentless, and with decidedly evil intentions, is stalking her. And with Peter Decker isolated from her troubles by his own investigation into a disturbing series of car-jackings, it's up to Cindy alone to find out who in her personal and/or professional life wants her frightened or harmed... or dead.

LAPD Detective Peter Decker doesn't know quite what to make of Lilah Brecht. The beautiful, eccentric spa owner and daughter of a faded Hollywood legend, Lilah was beaten, robbed, and raped in her own home - and claims to have psychic powers that enable her to see even more devastating events looming on the horizon. With his heart and mind on his pregnant young wife, Rina Lazarus, at home, Peter finds it hard to put much credence in the victim's outrageous claims, or to become too deeply involved with her equally odd brothers and aging film star mom. But when Lilah's dark visions turn frighteningly real, Decker's world will be severely rocked - as the "false prophet's" secrets and obsessions entrap the dedicated policeman... and point a killer toward Decker's own vulnerable family.

Once, Dr. Emil Euler Ganz was a preeminent astrophysicist with a world-renowned reputation. But then he vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues. Fifteen years later, he reappeared as "Father Jupiter", the founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult, The Order of the Rings. And now he's dead - a vial of sleeping pills and an empty bottle of vodka standing near his lifeless body.

Was Ganz's death an accident? Suicide? Or did someone hasten Jupiter prematurely out of this world? These are the questions LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker and his Homicide team are determined to answer as they enter the cult's fortresslike compound. But the dead leader's four "privileged" attendants make it clear that the police are not welcome there - and the mysterious disappearance of two of the Order's members, including a child, turns an already uncomfortable situation even uglier and more incendiary.

Decker will need more than the wisdom and support of his wife, Rina Lazarus, to defuse a ticking time bomb of jealousy, greed, bizarre hidden pasts, and deadly secrets - one that could explode at any time into mayhem so pernicious that it threatens to destroy a multitude of misguided lives - and scores of helpless, innocent children as well.