The Burnt House: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)

The Burnt House: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels) | Faye Kellerman | Dashed hopes

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	The Burnt House: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels) Faye Kellerman William Morrow, 2007 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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Great reading...as usual.

I am a very big fan of Faye & Jonathon Kellerman. I try to read everything they both write.

Dashed hopes

I had high hopes for Faye Kellerman's latest publication but the promise far exceeded the reality. Tighter editing of unnecessary and endless discussions of food, the sweating habits of large men and the impact of tampax failure on luminol results would have gone a long way. The plot was somewhat plausible but never really came together in a meaningful way. Rina and Peter have more to offer than this book gave them credit for.

It was OK, but....

...it wasn't anywhere near the best book of this series.

For starters, the person who wrote the plot synopsis on the book jacket (and in the Amazon listing) apparently didn't read the book. I kept waiting for the "unidentified bodies of four extra travellers" but they never appeared. And there was definitely no "relentless suspense" or "mind-searing portrait of unimaginable evil that will challenge Decker's and Rina's own beliefs about guilt and innocence and justice." Just the typical motives for murder with a coincidental little twist. After that big build-up, the actual plot was somewhat of a let-down

I enjoy Rina as a character but in this book she was mostly relegated to cooking. More Rina next time, please.

A good mystery will get me to overlook the elements that strain believability. In this book I found myself getting distracted by the thought that it would be no wonder the LAPD has budget problems if they really do fly several people around to different cities when one would be enough. It seemed hard to believe they would send 3 officers and a civilian to another state to show a picture to the parents of the possible victim of a decades old crime.

Even though it was not a great book, it was a decent read and entertaining enough so that I will read the next installment in this series. But I do hope the next one will be better.

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good read