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…

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

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 . . .

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 Donatti. He also became a professional killer.
Peter Decker was the detective on the case, and over the years, he and Terry kept in touch. Now his friend is in L.A. and asking for a favor. Though Decker knows full well that getting involved will bring Terry's sociopathic husband back into his life, the obsessive and duty-bound LAPD lieutenant reluctantly agrees. The favor soon becomes complicated when Terry goes missing and Donatti disappears, leaving their fourteen-year-old son, Gabe, with no one to turn to except Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus.
But Peter's search for Terry must share center stage with a gruesome murder. Adrianna Blanc, a neonatal nurse at St. Timothy's Hospital, had signed off her night shift at eight a.m. Six hours later, a foreman supervising the construction of a house in a nearby suburb discovered her body swinging from the rafters, a cable wire around her neck. Her car was found where she had parked it the night before, with no signs of foul play.
A dedicated and conscientious professional, Adrianna had a circle of close friends. Yet as Decker and his able team soon learn, the young woman also had her share of detractors. A party-hearty girl, she enjoyed booze, kinky sex, and revenge-cheating on her boyfriend, Garth Hammerling, another nurse at St. Tim's. Suspicions heat up when Decker and his team find that one of Adrianna's last phone calls was a provocative and disturbing message to her vacationing boyfriend-who himself has vanished without a trace. Was Adrianna's death something personal because of her carefree lifestyle? Or was this unusually cruel and very dramatic murder the first signs of a serial killer? With lives hanging in the balance, Decker and his colleagues, Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver, need to find answers and fast.
As if juggling two investigations weren't enough for the lieutenant (not to mention turning sixty ), things are becoming even more dangerous with his precarious home life. Ever the concerned parent, Decker wants to look after Terry's son, Gabe. Yet who will protect his own family? Because if there's one thing he knows for sure, with a sociopath like Donatti on the loose, no one is ever really safe.

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.

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.

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?