Stone Kiss
5 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 2 by Bug007 at -- By Post Or By Hand -- in Duluth, Minnesota USA on Sunday, October 20, 2002
I prefered her book Jupiter's Bones. This one was already, but she has done better.
Journal Entry 3 by Bug007 at -- By Post Or By Hand -- in Duluth, Minnesota USA on Sunday, October 20, 2002
Released on Sunday, October 20, 2002 at Grover3d's bookbox in Duluth, Minnesota USA.
Received from my good friend bug.....I'll update when I've finished - thanks Julie!
Just got in the mail from my bud Grover3d. Can't wait for a quiet night to sit down and polish it off! :D
Wow, I think this is the longest I've ever had a book without reading it!
Anyway, let's see... Decker goes back to New York to help out his family there, only to realize things aren't what they seem. Old faces from previous books return, and what at first starts off as a leisurely beach read soon turns into one heck of a great ending. Even the last scene, although predictable, was delish.
Anyway, let's see... Decker goes back to New York to help out his family there, only to realize things aren't what they seem. Old faces from previous books return, and what at first starts off as a leisurely beach read soon turns into one heck of a great ending. Even the last scene, although predictable, was delish.
This has been here way too long. It's headed out in Tribefan's Mystery Box #2, to find a new, loving home.
Removed from Tribefan's Mystery Bookbox.
Overall, an interesting mystery with a complex plot.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Raw. Brutal. Ugly. And, of course, riveting. L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker, an orthodox Jew, answers a call for help from his half-brother, Jonathan, in this 14th tale (after 2001's The Forgotten) from bestseller Kellerman.
Ephraim Lieber, Jonathan's brother-in-law, has been found murdered in a seedy Manhattan hotel. Ephraim's 15-year-old niece, Shaynda, who was supposed to be with him, is missing. Reluctantly, Peter agrees to fly to New York to assess the situation, advise the family and perhaps consult with the police investigating the crime. Wife Rina and daughter Hannah accompany him to make the trip something of a vacation as well.
The bare questions of the case are difficult and delicate enough (had Ephraim, a recovering drug addict, backslid? was his relationship with Shaynda abusive? what part did other family relationships play?). Peter is quickly caught up in a desperate attempt to find and save the girl while battling an intransigent family, unfamiliar territory and reckless killers. Worse, his best ally in this impossible situation is Chris Donatti, first encountered in Justice (1995), a psychotic, mob-connected killer and maker of pornographic films.
Whether Kellerman is depicting the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community or a pornographer's studio, she is utterly convincing. Amid the wreckage of lives taken or thrown away, Kellerman's heroes find glimmers of hope and enough moral ambiguity to make even her most evil villain look less than totally black.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Raw. Brutal. Ugly. And, of course, riveting. L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker, an orthodox Jew, answers a call for help from his half-brother, Jonathan, in this 14th tale (after 2001's The Forgotten) from bestseller Kellerman.
Ephraim Lieber, Jonathan's brother-in-law, has been found murdered in a seedy Manhattan hotel. Ephraim's 15-year-old niece, Shaynda, who was supposed to be with him, is missing. Reluctantly, Peter agrees to fly to New York to assess the situation, advise the family and perhaps consult with the police investigating the crime. Wife Rina and daughter Hannah accompany him to make the trip something of a vacation as well.
The bare questions of the case are difficult and delicate enough (had Ephraim, a recovering drug addict, backslid? was his relationship with Shaynda abusive? what part did other family relationships play?). Peter is quickly caught up in a desperate attempt to find and save the girl while battling an intransigent family, unfamiliar territory and reckless killers. Worse, his best ally in this impossible situation is Chris Donatti, first encountered in Justice (1995), a psychotic, mob-connected killer and maker of pornographic films.
Whether Kellerman is depicting the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community or a pornographer's studio, she is utterly convincing. Amid the wreckage of lives taken or thrown away, Kellerman's heroes find glimmers of hope and enough moral ambiguity to make even her most evil villain look less than totally black.
Journal Entry 10 by Pyan at Bookbox in Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, December 15, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (12/15/2005 UTC) at Bookbox in Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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RELEASE NOTES:
Releasing to "Pyan's Whodunit Bookbox."
Releasing to "Pyan's Whodunit Bookbox."
Wow! This book has been a bookcrossing book for a long time! I am removing it from Pyan's Whodunit bookbox as I love Faye Kellerman and have not read this one. Thanks!
