The Burnt House: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)
by Faye Kellerman | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0061227323 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0061227323 Global Overview for this book
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Apart of the first (Cold Case aka Mercedes Coffin) one I've read of Decker/Lazarus stories, I've tended to read them in order. This one is one of the newest ones, and - as Kellerman always has - it had elements that seemed different from the previous stories.
A flight crashes not far from where Hannah goes to school, and Peter gets to manage the investigators for the crash - all passengers and crew of a commuter flight died in the accident that also burnt down a residential house. After a few months the father of a flight attendant reported dead starts calling Peter, convinced that Roseanne didn't die in the crash, but was murdered by her husband. When Peter starts to investigate this angle, there are twists and turns and nothing seems to prove Roseanne having been on board - also her body isn't yet recovered. Then they find a female body in the ruins of the crashed building, but that isn't Roseanne, but a Jane Doe whose death they date back at least 30 years. Who was she and what if anything does she have with Roseanne's disappearance?
There are elements in the plot that I find hard to believe. And this time Rina's explanations and references to old Jewish and Yiddish sayings with her views of faith seem a bit too excessive. This series is one of the few I've ever read where the Jewishness doesn't generally get too much. Maybe it's just a few dialogs doing it this time: just because someone chooses to believe in something doesn't make them any better than the rest of the people. But as always, there are some interesting characters in the story. This time my favorites would have to be the fathers of Roseanne and the Jane Doe.
A flight crashes not far from where Hannah goes to school, and Peter gets to manage the investigators for the crash - all passengers and crew of a commuter flight died in the accident that also burnt down a residential house. After a few months the father of a flight attendant reported dead starts calling Peter, convinced that Roseanne didn't die in the crash, but was murdered by her husband. When Peter starts to investigate this angle, there are twists and turns and nothing seems to prove Roseanne having been on board - also her body isn't yet recovered. Then they find a female body in the ruins of the crashed building, but that isn't Roseanne, but a Jane Doe whose death they date back at least 30 years. Who was she and what if anything does she have with Roseanne's disappearance?
There are elements in the plot that I find hard to believe. And this time Rina's explanations and references to old Jewish and Yiddish sayings with her views of faith seem a bit too excessive. This series is one of the few I've ever read where the Jewishness doesn't generally get too much. Maybe it's just a few dialogs doing it this time: just because someone chooses to believe in something doesn't make them any better than the rest of the people. But as always, there are some interesting characters in the story. This time my favorites would have to be the fathers of Roseanne and the Jane Doe.
Will release somewhere around Texas Book Festival on Saturday morning!
Somewhere where it shouldn't interfere with the books that are sold... but where it should still (at least I hope so) attract enough the attention of some future readers.
Safe journey little book - I hope you'll make many new friends on your travels!
"Don't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... "
— Neil Gaiman
To the finder of this book:
Hello and congratulations! You have not only found yourself a good book, but a whole community of booklovers dedicated to sharing books with each other and the world at large. I hope you'll stick around a bit and get to know BookCrossing --maybe even make a journal entry on this book. You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (its free!)
Feel free to read and keep this book, or to pass it on to a friend or even set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find like you did. If you do choose to join and journal, then you can watch the book as it travels- You'll be alerted by email each time someone makes another journal entry. It's all confidential (you're known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free. Happy reading!
Somewhere where it shouldn't interfere with the books that are sold... but where it should still (at least I hope so) attract enough the attention of some future readers.
Safe journey little book - I hope you'll make many new friends on your travels!
"Don't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... "
— Neil Gaiman
To the finder of this book:
Hello and congratulations! You have not only found yourself a good book, but a whole community of booklovers dedicated to sharing books with each other and the world at large. I hope you'll stick around a bit and get to know BookCrossing --maybe even make a journal entry on this book. You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (its free!)
Feel free to read and keep this book, or to pass it on to a friend or even set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find like you did. If you do choose to join and journal, then you can watch the book as it travels- You'll be alerted by email each time someone makes another journal entry. It's all confidential (you're known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free. Happy reading!
