The Decker/Lazarus thrillers include Sacred And Profane Milk And Honey Day of Atonement False Prophet Grievous Sin Sanctuary as well as her New York Times Bestsellers, Justice, Prayers for The Dead listed by the LA Times as one of the best crime novel of 2001 Serpent's Tooth Jupiter's Bones, The Forgotten, Stone Kiss, Straight Into Darkness, The Burnt House, The Mercedes Coffin and Blindman's Bluff. There are well over twenty million copies of Faye Kellerman's novels in print internationally. The winner of the Macavity Award for the Best First Novel from the Mystery Readers of American, The Ritual Bath introduced readers to Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, termed by People Magazine 'Hands down, the most refreshing mystery couple around.' The New York Times enthused, 'This couple's domestic affairs have the haimish warmth of reality, unlike the formulaic lives of so many other genre detectives.' Kellerman's groundbreaking first novel, The Ritual Bath, was published in 1986 to wide critical and commercial acclaim. She earned a BA in mathematics and a doctorate in dentistry at UCLA. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. Overlong, somewhat overwrought, and just barely skirting the clichÃ‰d.Faye Kellerman was born in St. The Tobacco Road quality of the Darcys, the sexual foibles of Decker's orthodox Jewish girlfriend's family (including attempted rape by her brother-in-law), and the sexual taunts of Decker's one-legged Vietnam vet friend Abel (directed at the religious Rina) make this an uneasy read, though judicious pruning would have helped. Finally, Earl confesses, but Decker doesn't buy it, and then the full, awful story of an obsession finally comes out.

Also: half the clan wanted to sell the farm to a real-estate developer, and half wanted to hold on.

As Decker and his partners probe further, they find that Linda played around, that all the men she dallied with had lots of kids, and that she and her husband cost Pappy a fortune at the fertility clinic. How did Katie get from the farm to the housing development? Her other relatives-old Pappy, nutty Granny, retarded Earl, and semi-sensible Sue Beth-were at a motel 20 miles away. Dead are little Katie's mom, Linda her dad Luke his sister, Carla and a lusty stud-biker from down the road. When Glendale cop Peter Decker finds a two-year-old playing outside a housing development at one in the morning, with blood all over her clothes, he canvasses the neighborhood, can't find anyone who knows her, but bee stings on the child's body lead him to the Darcy bee farm-and a quadruple homicide.

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