The Lost Boys (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #26) (2024)

Hello good reads friends who have stuck with me in 2021. After seven months of a hectic life with more going on than even I am used to followed by burnout, I finally got into the right mental place to read. I think reading missed me as much as I missed the activity because yesterday I plowed through 250 pages. Granted mysteries of that length have always been both my jam and palette cleanser but after a long hiatus I did not know what to expect. Needless to say it felt refreshing to sit on the couch with a book and my cats who are not used to sharing my affection with inanimate objects. It is what it is.

I knew Faye Kellerman had an installment of her mystery series out when the pandemic hit and of course I was giddy with excitement. I have been with the Decker clan since the very first book and I looked forward to seeing how life is currently treating them. Rina Decker is a woman who I wish I could meet for coffee in real life. She seems to me the older sister I never had or perhaps a young aunt. Regardless, we share similar interests besides the gardening and I have a feeling that we would be friends. When she as involved in the plot of a book as she was here, I tend to enjoy it more so in The Lost Boys, I was not disappointed.

Will I ever be at a place again where I can write a five paragraph tome about a novella or fast paced mystery? Maybe not because life is too busy and too short to take an hour or two out of my day write comprehensive reviews. Writing for me is almost more of a joy than the actual reading but that had become a chore, and perhaps the reason why I took an extended break from reading. As I look to find balance, I admit that reading is more relaxing than writing so reviews will be the last thing to return. I am just happy that I finished a book at all.

Kellerman here has Decker and his partner McAdams search for a missing developmentally disabled adult. While on the trail full of twists, they discover the bones of a hiker belonging to a ten year old unsolved case. Although the two cases do not overlap, they are more than enough to keep the quiet town of Greenbury and it’s PD busy. Meanwhile, Gabe Donatti makes his presence felt in the Deckers’ lives and this time, wait for it, so do his parents. Yes, parents plural. The cases featuring Christopher J Donatti are the spiciest and diciest of the series and Kellerman has promised a sequel where he is sure to be front and center. Again I am beyond giddy.

The Deckers are close to retirement age and are looking to live half the year in Jerusalem, lucky them. I am still waiting for Kellerman to turn the series over to Decker’s daughter Cindy but that has never happened. A series only featuring Chris Donatti as spicy as it is might run out of storylines. I will take what I can get from any of these recurring characters. In the meantime the publication date for this sequel is not for another year, so I will have to wait. I will have to bide my time and speculate just what is in store. Until then I enjoyed my time with the Deckers as I am apt to do and hopefully it will not be another seven months until I pick up a book again.

🍁🍎 4 stars 🍏🍂

Such a disappointment

The worst book I’ve read in awhile, and I’m a Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus follower from before there was a Rina Lazarus. The book was just a hot mess —an editor should have prevented this mashup from being published, there are at least 3 potential books in there. And the end. OMG! I thought I must not have received
the last 10 pages. It struck me as though Kellerman just got up from her laptop mid-plot and walked away. Of course, the challenge of tying up all the loose ends was Sisyphean, but not to do better than a “to be continued (maybe)” ending felt unfair to her loyal fans.

In this 26th book in the 'Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus' series, former LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker - who's close to retirement age - is now working for the Greensbury Police Department in upstate New York.

Peter's detective partner is Tyler McAdams, a Harvard Law School graduate who's preparing for the Bar Exam.

And Peter's wife Rina, as always, gives advice about her husband's cases and prepares delicious kosher meals and snacks.

The book can be read as a standalone, but familiarity with the characters is a plus.

*****

As the story opens an intellectually disabled man named Bertram Lanz disappears from a field trip organized by his 'Loving Care' assisted living facility. The residents were taken on a gentle hike, then to a diner, after which Bertram failed to return to the bus.

Detective Decker and his team scour the woods near the diner, but find no sign of Bertram. While searching for the missing man, however, the police find the remains of a college student named Zeke Anderson, who vanished ten years ago. Zeke and two of his college buddies had gone camping, and never returned. Finding Zeke's bones, which have sustained severe damage, leads to new inquiries about the three missing students.

Meanwhile, Decker and McAdams interview the director and residents of the Loving Care facility, and learn that Bertram was moved there from another home, where he had a girlfriend named Catherine.

Moreover, Bertram had been friendly with a Loving Care nurse named Elsie, who recently quit.

Decker and McAdams want to speak to Catherine and Elsie, but this is easier said than done.

As all this is happening, Decker's wife Rina has a little drama of her own. Peter and Rina's foster son Gabe, a 24-year-old concert pianist.....

.....got a call from his biological mother, a manipulative woman who probably wants something. Gabe asks Rina to accompany him to see his mom, and Rina agrees.

It's always a treat to visit with favorite characters but this book is disappointing. The narrative consists largely of Decker and McAdams going here and there to interview people again and again, which gets a bit dull. Moreover, of the three plotlines, only one is completely resolved. On the upside, Peter and Rina plan a rather significant change in their lives, which may well play out in future books.

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We’ve read every single book in the Faye Kellerman bibliography, “Lost Boys” her most recent 26th entry in the Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus series; we are/were long time fans. This latest novel features two main plots, plus a third silly sub-plot unrelated to anything but ancient family history. Regarding that latter, their immensely annoying "foster child" Gabe was reprised from books 19-21, the last three mediocre novels while they all still lived in Los Angeles, in a drama concerning his mother and step-siblings that was totally unresolved – meaning we have to put up with that in the next book, an unwelcome expectation. Meanwhile, the first plot is about a man missing from an assisted living facility for disabled persons – and that story is moderately entertaining until it just fizzles into a not totally resolved ending that to us was both unsatisfactory and actually somewhat insulting.

While police scoured the woods for the missing man near the upstate New York small town of Greenbury, where Decker is now a detective on a very small force that includes his mentee and partner Harvard-educated Tyler, the bones of a long ago victim are discovered. The body is identified via DNA as one of three college kids lost over a long weekend some ten years ago, with the cold case barely worked since. That doesn’t stop Decker and Tyler from flying and driving all over the country to talk to the three sets of parents multiple times, incredulous expenses seemingly ridiculous to justify. Through a long dry accounting of the police plodding along, eventually that cold case is mostly solved when essentially one of the parents buckles down with some new facts.

In the end, we are virtually outraged at the loose, incomplete, or just sub-standard resolution of the three stories. That the book just ends unceremoniously with Rina and Peter on a flight to Israel, where they contemplate living for half each year, seems nothing but a signal to another big shift in scenery. With Peter just shy of 70, we almost wish he would just retire if this is the best we can get out of this set. Maybe Faye Kellerman should contemplate a similar decision. {1.5}

I was a devout acolyte of Faye Kellerman’s early Decker and Lazarus books. The Ritual Bath (1986) is, to me, one of the greatest first mysteries ever. In it, Peter Decker, an LAPD detective, encounters the orthodox Jewish Rina Lazarus after a rape and murder at her neighborhood mikvah, or ritual bath. Improbably, the two eventually get married and the series, now 26 books long, is a strong one. The early books were marked by intensity of character discovery, intensity of violence, and Kellerman’s propulsive narrative skill.

All these many books later, Peter and Rina have aged into a comfortable old married couple with many children and grandchildren, and Peter has retired from the LAPD and taken on a “retirement” job as a detective in upstate New York. I have found through reading many writers who were almost excessively violent in early books – Karin Slaughter and Val McDermid come to mind – that as the authors age, the violence becomes less extreme. In the cases of all of these talented writers I stuck with the books, because all of them are extremely well written.

And what hasn’t changed are the wonder of Kellerman’s main characters. All these years later, I love them as much as I did in my first encounter. Rina is that almost perfect woman who isn’t annoying (unlike say, Susan Silverman in the Robert Parker books). Peter is kind – a kind husband and father, and a kind mentor to his present partner, Tyler McAdams, a recent law school grad who is figuring out his life. Rina and Peter are always worth a visit just on their own.

What also hasn’t changed is Kellerman’s sure hand with narrative. She sets up her story with a good hook. A developmentally disabled man, Bertram Telemann, has disappeared from a scheduled field trip set up by the home he lives in. The group had gone into the woods to hike and a head count on the bus home comes up one short.

While looking for Bertram, the police come across some older bones, and a cold case comes into play. Ten years ago, three college students had disappeared on a camping trip in the woods and were never heard from again. Sadly, the bones discovered turn out to belong to one of the missing boys, and Peter and his partner begin to unravel the case.

Kellerman has such a sure hand she’s able to unspool both stories almost simultaneously, though the story of the boys takes front and center as Decker and his partner reach out to the parents of the missing boys to help them understand what happened.

Decker announces a change toward the end of the book that made me think this was a series wrap up, but Kellerman leaves a thread to unravel in a future story at the end of the book. She also lays out a possible new direction for the series. Either way this was a book that flew through my reading fingers far too quickly. It also made me remember and appreciate all the reasons I love this series.

The novel starts out with the search for a missing person. Bertram, a mentally challenged man, has disappeared from his residence. While searching for him, old remains are found in the woods. These are revealed to be related to a cold case from 10 years ago when 3 college students disappeared. Peter and Tyler (his trust fund Harvard-educated partner) work together on both cases, and as each case unfolds, questions arise. What happened to the three boys that weekend in the woods? Did someone help Bertram leave? Is the nurse who recently quit working at the care home involved? I found it a bit hard to believe that a small town NY police department would pay to send two detectives on flights to Cleveland and St Louis (twice) to talk to parents of boys missing for 10 years. I was extremely annoyed (and feel that Faye Kellerman does her readers a disservice) with the cliffhanger ending—a set up for the next book to be sure. Thanks to the publisher and Edelweiss for this ARC.

Not one but three plots take place simultaneously in this, the 26th book featuring former LAPD detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus. I've followed them from the beginning, right through their not-so-long-ago move from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles to the far more laid-back community of Greenbury in upstate New York. There, missing the challenges of detective work but the day-to-day danger not so much, Decker has joined the local police.

The first plot centers on Bertran Lanz, a thirty-something man with social disabilities, who disappears from his local residential group home. The second involves a body that turns up, literally, in a remote woods and appears to be connected to the decade-old disappearance of three college students. The third hits closer to home as Gabriel, Peter and Rina's foster son and a successful classical pianist, returns home to say his on-again, off-again birth mother is in trouble and needs help.

Decker and his partner, Tyler McAdams, land the assignment to find the missing man. Soon, it becomes apparent that he had help disappearing - perhaps from a former nurse at the residential facility. That angle takes a strange turn, though, when the nurse seems to have vanished as well, possibly not of her own accord.

The case of the dead college student, of course, has long gone cold; but it's a good bet his death was a homicide, so Decker and McAdams begin to unearth clues that might lead investigators to find the other two young men. Readers follow along as the detectives locate and interview parents and others who may have information that will reveal what happened all those years ago.

Gabe's situation, for the most part, ends up in Rina's hands. As his foster mother, he trusts her - and she's well acquainted with his wacky birth mother and dangerous (somewhat estranged) father, a mobster who oversees a prostitution empire and is well known for killing people who get in his way.

If there's an issue, it's that only one of the three plots comes full circle to a conclusion; the other two are pretty much left swinging in the wind (one more than the other, and no, my lips are sealed). Besides that, a new twist on the future of Rina and Peter's life is introduced - no doubt signaling a new direction for future books. Overall, though, it's another enjoyable entry in a favorite series.

Kudos to Faye Kellerman, who continues to write mysteries for retired LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina. Peter works for the local police is a small college town in upstate NY. A man goes missing from a field trip for developmentally challenged adults, and while looking for him, the searchers find the 10-year old remains of a college student, who disappeared while camping with two friends over parent's weekend. Then, their foster son, maestro violinist shows up to ask Rina to come to NY City to meet with his mother, which worries him. Peter works the cases with Tyler McAdam, his young, Harvard Law-educated partner. I found the three stories did not fit together very well, which was frustrating as a reader. And, there is a surprise at the end, which may turn this series in a new direction.

Deeply disappointing. This series found new life in upstate New York with solid new characters and some enjoyable entries. This book was a nightmare. The plot starts out promising, but it degenerates from there. The writing is poor, the vocabulary is childish, and their police procedure is unbelievable. Unsatisfactory conclusion, which was pretty much guesswork, and a totally annoying family subplot that would play better on a soap opera. I will not waste any more time on this series.

A nice visit with old friends

Once a homicide detective, always a homicide detective. Even in the small, upstate New York college town, Decker keeps being entangled in complex murder investigations. He discusses cases with his wife, and listens to what she says.

Lost Boys is about a cold case and a missing persons case that are apparently unconnected. As Decker pursues the answers, he still has an interesting life swirling around him. At almost 70 years old, he has grandchildren and a zest for adventure. So he sets out to buy an old house in Israel, a fixer-upper he plans to do himself.

Meanwhile the biological mother of his foster son, a renowned pianist, is embroiled in a nasty divorce and custody battle for the half-siblings of his foster son.

In earlier books, he was always fixing up a ranch he owned in Los Angeles, so we know he knows how to do it, but he also knows all that could go wrong.

After he thinks both his cases are over and done with, he heads for Israel with his wife to buy the house, but it is soon clear none of these matters are really settled.

I don’t think Decker will ever retire, even though he did it once and looks like he’s thinking about it again. Start with Book One where Decker meets Rina, widowed with two sons. See if you think he’ll retire.

A generous two stars. The author perhaps could not decide which of her several storylines to write about- so she wrote about them all. A story about a 10 year old unsolved crime, the disappearance of an emotionally handicapped adult, the continuing saga of a foster child's natural parents ongoing difficulties. Pick one- any one of the three would have been better than this jumble.

I finally discovered that none of the stories were inter-related when I finished struggling at the end.

My last book by this author.

I knew it was a long shot I would enjoy The Lost Boys when I disliked the last two books in the series.

This is such a sad assessment since I enjoyed Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus from the very beginning.

Once again, the discovery of a missing young man from over a decade ago pulls Peter and his Harvard trust fund partner, Tyler, into the investigation.

As Peter and Tyler traverse across the states to speak to three sets of grieving parents to figure out whodunit, the resolution appears only when one parent reveals information previously withheld.

I hate it when that happens because as a reader that kind of revelation is dishonest, especially since the point of reading mysteries (for me) is to solve it along with the detectives/sleuth.

At the same time, readers are given an annoying subplot into Gabe's screwed up family.

You can feel the author is really reaching to fill those pages.

Digging up Gabe's troubled childhood and bringing his troubled mother and felonious father back into the mix does not make me interested. It just pads the book and annoys me. A lot.

The mystery is unsatisfying, Gabe's troubles are of no consequence to me, plot holes are dangling and I was left feeling irritated and cheated again.

It's high time this series has been put to pasture. Put Decker and Rina out of their misery, please. And us too.

Oy. Kellerman has clearly lost interest in this series. She ends one who done it in a disappointing fashion, and seems to leave the second as a cliffhanger for another volume. The same goes with the subplot featuring the Deckers' foster son Gabe, it's almost as if a chapter or two didn't get included!

If Kellerman wants to keep making money -- oops, I mean writing books - - she should let Decker and Rina retire peacefully and turn back to Decker's daughter Cindy, about whom she wrote several books in the middle of the series.

Disappointing

I've read several books in this series, but this one is a major disappointment. Far too many unresolved issues, unanswered questions, and loose ends.

Story lines left incomplete. Just did not enjoy this one.

I have read all of the books in this series but as I finish this book, I wonder if I will continue much longer. Decker and McAdams are detectives in Greenbury, NY and their newest case is a missing adult who lives in a home for developmentally disabled adults. It intersects when the bones of a body are found that are 10 years old and belong to a missing college student, who had disappeared on a camping trip. Much of the cases cover fairly boring routine police work in the minute detail. The case of the missing college students was a bit interesting because it was a cold case. The missing man, Betram Lanz was not exactly found but the ending felt anti climatic. As for their stepson Gabe's birth mother drama that was more interesting and may continue into the next book. It seems Decker and Rina are about done with Greenbury and want to move to Israel and semi retire. I'd be more interested to see Tyler McAdams' story continue.

A couple things I didn't like. Yes, it's not surprising to see characters depicted as MAGA fans / Cult45. Especially these 2 particular ones who work at a gun range. But to bring them up without offering a countering view from a different character it made me wonder what Decker & Rina would think. It just wasn't needed or helpful to the story. Neither was the mention of COVID 19 at the end. Was this timeline in a post covid reality? All this mention of shaking hands etc but assumed it was just "in a universe without it or before" just to throw that mention in at the end seemed superfluous. To include these 2 things IMO was bad judgment from the editor. The country is so divided right now, having a character say she went conservative after her brother was killed for his sneakers (not mentioned but seemed obvious she meant by thugs, who were Black) - so in her mind its ok to judge a whole marginalized group by a few people. I wish this whole part was left out. It added absolutely nothing to the story other than making me wonder about the author 's political leanings and RIGHT after an insurrection.

This book was a terrible mess. Two stars is way too generous.

There’s so many problems, especially with police procedure, it’s difficult to chose my favorite. Yes, I do know that a reader must, to a certain degree, suspend disbelief and occasionally common sense in service of the author’s story. But, no police detectives act outside their jurisdiction without informing the local police agency, particularly in the investigation of a possible murderer with mental health issues. Choosing to bring along the suspect’s mother, instead of jurisdictional police back up, is not the typical decision of an experienced investigator or a less experienced partner, who has been involved in a police shooting, as mentioned numerous times. And the real laugh, oh hey, is there a local range so our intrepid investigators can purchase some off the rack ballistic protection for themselves and mom? Not even near the realm of professional law enforcement.

So many more issues with police practice, but worse are the unresolved or confusing resolutions to plot lines. It’s just a mess. And that is an author’s trade and what they do know best. (Where was the editor to curb this, as well?)

I had forgotten why I stopped reading the series years ago. Having another go has affirmed to me that perhaps it’s time for Det. Lazarus to take full retirement.

As a lover of a good detective/mystery now and then, I found this to be a terrible disappointment. Since there seems to be 26 books in this series, I must admit have never read them all, however read some now and then. No it seems, you cannot do that! Much of this novel deals with vague characters and cases from previous books in the series, therefore spent much of this story not knowing what the characters were even talking about. That and the fact the author seems obsessed with describing the clothing worn by each and every person no matter how insignificant their part in the story might be. Entire paragraphs telling about jeans or sneakers on someone serving coffee etc. Just fillers I'm thinking. Getting to the story, well there are two stories going on at the same time so a lot of back and forth. A ten year old cold case is solved the other left vaguely in the air. So sorry to lovers of this series, I think many authors out there produce a far better mystery. This was not one of my favorites!

A 30-something gentleman from a home disappears from a diner while on an outing. While Decker and his partner search the woods for him, they find a body which has been there for many, many years - and the search turns into the second story line. Meanwhile Decker and Rina's foster son returns to ask for help regarding his birth mother who is in trouble with her second husband, which is the third story line.

Faye Kellerman writes with intensity and weaves her stories well, ending them into a cliffhanger which leaves the reader wanting more! The character descriptions are excellent; not a predictable read, but an enjoyable and easy read.

Have enjoyed this series very much and wish it continued, but have a nagging feeling it is turning into the beginning of the next series. Keep reading and see what happens in the next book!

I have been a faithful Kellerman reader for years, but I found this book disappointing for several reasons. First of all when did Rina start calling everyone honey??
The dialogue felt stilted, as I haven't felt before. There were 3 plot points happening at the same time. Only 1 of which was solved, leaving two cliffhangers!! Which was weird as another plot point seemed like the series was winding down to an ending!
Decker and Tyler were driving and flying all over the place, descriptions were almost too descriptive, and though I always enjoy the whole family together, that part was almost to skimpy. All in all, a disappointing read, though now I must wait to see if the next is the last, or is she going to move in a completely different direction??

There was great promise for this novel at the beginning. Then, a plot ploy was used that I am not very fond of. Faye Kellerman presents an initial mystery which I found interesting - a mentally challenged man in his 40’s disappears from a group outing. But that mystery becomes a hammock for another totally different story, a cold case dealing with the disappearance of three young men 10 years previously. This cold case takes primary position in the book. We are returned to the initial mystery near the end of the book.

Kellerman still creates contagious, sweet, funny and sometimes irascible characters. They keep pulling me back.

Decker and Lazarus make an interesting life change at the end of the novel. It could provide some fresh plot twists in Kellerman’s next book.

Kellerman's books are always interesting. This one is a bit of a mess. There are 3 separate story lines that don't intertwine, and the first takes a back seat and doesn't add much to the book.

I thought I’d missed no more than a handful of the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series but this is Kellerman’s 26th book featuring the couple and I’ve only read just over half, the last of which was book #22, Murder 101. Thankfully however this seems to matter little, aided in part because Kellerman ages her characters in real time.

In The Lost Boys, Decker and his partner Tyler are called in when a man disappears while on a field trip with a group from a local care home. In searching the woods nearby, a body is found in a shallow grave, but this man has lain there for at least a decade.

With his customary doggedness, Decker attacks both investigations. The missing man is his initial priority, with growing concerns that he has been targeted by because of his parent’s wealth. When blood is found at the home of a nurse that may be connected, Decker fears the worst, but despite his best efforts the case soon stalls. Unexpectedly Kellerman employs a cliffhanger of sorts in this instance, though the missing man is eventually located, the circ*mstance spawns another mystery.

In the second investigation, the remains prove to belong to one of three young college men who disappeared while on a camping trip. The damage to his skeleton suggests that he had been shot, and Decker wonders if he is looking for the bodies of his two companions, or if the two men may have killed the third and gone on the run. Investigating a ten year old cold case is a difficult task, but thorough police work results in an important break. In general I liked how this case played out, however one flaw I had difficulty overlooking was an emphasis on a shovel being out of place on a camping trip. Perhaps Faye has never been camping because I wouldn’t consider it at all strange that campers have a shovel, a digging implement is essential when there are no bathrooms.

While Decker is busy with police work, Rina is offering moral support to their foster son, Gabe whose biological mother has suddenly returned to the States with Gabe’s half siblings. It’s clear Terry is in trouble and Gabe is torn when she asks for his help, but it seems inevitable he will be drawn into the mess she has got herself into.

With this, and the unanswered questions of the first investigation, Kellerman has laid the foundation the next book in the series, though I think it’s clear that it’s end is creeping closer. Peter is seventy or thereabouts and is making plans for his retirement from the force, but there are hints, I think, that Tyler could take up the mantle.

Kellerman offers up two well paced, and involving mysteries in The Lost Boys, but as a fan it’s the opportunity to catch up with Peter, Rina and their family that I enjoy the most.

While on an outing with a group from a residence for developmentally disabled adults, one of them, Bertram Lanz, disappeared. No trace of him was found so detectives Peter Decker and his partner Tyler McAdams were assigned to continue the search.Decker quickly decides that Lanz left the group voluntarily, possibly with a former staff member.

As the search for him continues, though, one of them finds remains from one of three young men who had disappeared ten years earlier.

In addition, Gabriel (Decker and Rena Lazarus’s foster son) is contacted by his mother, for the first time in a decade. She’s in New York with her two other young children and is in trouble.

Rena plays a larger role in THE LOST BOYS than she has in the past few books in the series.

While intertwined, each thread is handled separately. The ending is rushed and promises major changes in Peter & Rena’s life though the way it starts does not seem realistic. Most religious references refer to food.

You lose a star Faye for not finishing the book! I had heard it was a cliff-hanger, but this was worse than that, as there were 2 ongoing cases and a personal dilemma to solve. I won't tell you how many of these do get solved, but I will say it just bluntly stops leaving you in midair. (pun intended)
I had read several reviews when the book came out, saying it was a total cliff-hanger, so I waited until "The Hunt" was out for I even attempted to start this book. So now's a good time to start, as it is a typical Decker book and very interesting. Also, Chris and Terry are back; the story I started the series with and still my favorite characters.

I didn’t like Ms Kellerman’s books 35 years ago and I still don’t👎. I thought I was picking up a New Jonathan Kellerman. This was the last in a pile of library books, so for lack of anything else I read it. It was beyond bad. I finished it as fast as I could. It was written and ended so the story could be continued. No thanks! Please, just leave Decker in Israel and kill the series.

There was so much speculation about the cases that I’m not sure what really went on. I find all that Jewishness very off putting - it has no bearing on the story. Calling McAdams “Harvard” 8000 times was another annoying feature. How can an entire page be devoted to deciding which shirt to pack in a suitcase?

The conclusions to all three incidents was totally unsatisfactory. One of the worst books I’ve finished in a long time.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book but was disappointed that it was incomplete. I had to check I was actually on the last page.

Loved this book. The characters are so real. You’re drawn into the story and mystery. Had a hard time putting it down.

I’m too irritated to write a good review for this book, so I’ll just show you one of my status updates:

@91% "I’m soo f**king FURIOUS right now 🤬😡😤🤬😡"

Also, needless to say, I will not be reading any more Faye Kellerman books, I will stick with Jonathan Kellerman & occasionally Jesse Kellerman.

I have read all the books in this series and I like how the author has the characters maturing into new stages of their lives. There were actual several mysteries to solve and a new mystery started which will probably be in the next book in the series.