Bücher von Faye Kellerman

Prism takes us to a slightly alternate universe in which medicine and health care do not exist, and in which sick people are allowed to die without any care. Set in New Mexico and California, the novel features three teens who fall through a cave at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico while on a field trip. They are plunged into a frightening parallel universeseven weeks in the past, in which their "e;normal"e; worlds of family and high school remain the sameexcept for the fact that no medicine exists and when people die in the street they are picked up and disposed of.

Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus series.Former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is relishing the quiet and slow pace of his new job with the Greenbury police department. The work is low stress and engaging, and it's been almost a year since the last murder in this sleepy upstate New York town.Then the body of a nude man is found deep within the woods, shattering Decker's peace. The death appears to be a suicide--a single shot to the head, the gun by his side. But until the coroner's ruling, the scene must be treated as a suspicious crime. Without any personal effects near the body, Decker must dig to uncover his identity, a task made difficult by the department's tight budget and limited personnel. Luckily, Decker gets some unexpected help when his friend and former Greenbury colleague Tyler McAdams calls, looking for a quiet place to study for his law finals.The investigation takes Decker and McAdams to Kneed Loft College, where they must penetrate the indecipherable upper echelons of mathematics and mathematical prodigies. Beneath the school's rarified atmosphere they discover a sphere of scheming academics, hidden cyphers--and most dangerous of all--a realm of underworld crime that transforms harmless nerds into cold, calculating evil geniuses. It will take all of Decker's experience and McAdams's brains to penetrate enigmatic formulas and codes and solve a dark, twisted crime devised by some brilliant and depraved masterminds.

Un asesinato, una mujer desaparecida, y un sociópata del pasado conducen a Peter Decker y Rina Lazarus en un laberinto de misterio y peligro en esta electrizante nueva historia de suspenso de la autora best seller del New York Times Faye Kellerman...

Peter Decker bereitet sich weiter auf seinen Ruhestand vor, doch ein letzter Fall muss noch geklärt werden: Mit seinem Partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, versucht er herauszufinden, wie eine der vermissten Personen aus seinem letzten Fall tot im Wald enden konnte. Alle Beteiligten scheinen sich nach Deutschland abgesetzt zu haben.Gleichzeitig wird Gabes Mutter Terry das Opfer eines brutalen Überfalls, bei der ihr jüngster Sohn entführt wird. Gabe informiert seinen Vater, den schwerreichen Zuhälter Chris Donatti, der sofort alles stehen und liegen lässt, um seine schwer verletzte Ex-Frau und große Liebe Terry zu sich zu holen, ihren Sohn zu befreien und sie wieder zurückzugewinnen - und dafür schreckt er vor nichts zurück ...

Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett "Dr. Ben" Alston Little, murdered execution-style and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz. No arrests were ever made, no killer charged for the brutal crime. Fifteen years later, the high-tech CEO reads about another execution-style murder; this time the victim is a Hollywood music producer named Primo Ekerling. There is no obvious connection, but the case is eerily similar to Little's and Genoa feels the time is right to close Dr. Ben's case once and for all--offering the L.A.P.D. a substantial financial "incentive" if justice is finally served for Little.Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower to a fifteen-year-old open case simply because a rich woman says "Jump!" Still, the recent murder of Primo Ekerling does bear a disturbing resemblance to Little's case, even though two thug suspects are currently behind bars for the Ekerling murder. Decker can't help but wonder about a connection. His first phone calls are to the two primary investigators in the Little case, retired detectives Calvin Vitton and Arnie Lamar. Lamar is cooperative, but Vitton is not only reluctant to talk, he winds up dead of a suspicious suicide twelve hours later. Plunging into this long-buried murder, Decker discovers that even though the two slayings are separated by a decade and a half, there is still plenty of greed, lust, and evil to connect the dots.Decker's team of top investigators not only includes his favorite homicide detectives, Scott Oliver and Marge Dunn, but also his newly minted Hollywood detective daughter, Cindy Kutiel, whose help proves to be invaluable. His wife, Rina Lazarus, continues to be his backbone of support, offering a cool, rational outlook despite her growing concern for her husband's welfare and safety. Rina's worries and fears begin to build at a fevered pitch as past and present collide with a vengeance, catapulting an unsuspecting Peter Decker closer and closer to the edge of an infinite dark abyss.A relentlessly gripping tale spun by a master, Faye Kellerman's The Mercedes Coffin races through a dangerous urban world of fleeting fame and false dreams, making heart-pumping hairpin turns at each step of a terrifying journey, where truth and justice are fine lines between life and death.

Peter Decker und Rina Lazarus ermitteln wiederDas Verschwinden eines Bewohners aus einer betreuten Wohneinrichtung wird Peter und seinem Partner übertragen - scheinbar ein leichter Fall. Doch je weiter die Ermittlungen voranschreiten, desto sicherer ist er sich, dass der Mann nicht weggelaufen ist, sondern entführt wurde. Als dann bei der groß angelegten Suche im Wald von Greenbury auch noch die Leiche eines Jungen auftaucht, der bereits vor Jahren vermisst gemeldet wurde, ermittelt Peter plötzlich in zwei Fällen gleichzeitig. Immer im Ungewissen, ob der Wald seine dunklen Geheimnisse preisgeben wird ...

Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, risk life and limb to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than twenty years ago in this intense and addictive mystery from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.On a quiet suburban street in upstate Greenbury, New York, the brutally beaten body of a young man is discovered in the woods adjacent to an empty vacation home. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil a resident of the neighboring town of Hamilton, had no criminal record, few friends, worked full-time, and attended community college. But as Detective Peter Decker learns, the clean-cut kid is linked to the criminal world. When Brady was a baby, his father, Brandon Gratz, was convicted of robbing and killing the owners of a local jewelry store. While Gratz and his partner, Kyle Masterson, admitted to the robbery, they swore they left the owners, Glen and Lydia Levine, very much alive. The experienced detective knows theres more to this homicide case than the records show. As he digs into Gratzs past, Decker begins to suspect that the sons murder may be connected to the fathers sins. Before he can put together the pieces, Decker finds out that one of Brady Neils friends, Joseph Bochaka Boxerhas gone missing. Heading to Bochs house with his temporary new partner, Hamilton PD cop Lenora Baccus, they discover a bloodbath.Who would savagely kill two innocent menand why? Finding the answers will require all of Deckers skill and knowledge, the help of his fellow Greenbury detectives, Tyler McAdams and Kevin Butterfield, and information gleaned from his wife Rinas behind the scenes investigation to put all the pieces of this deadly puzzle together . . . and see justice done.

Nach 30 Jahren in L.A. will Detective Peter Decker die Zeit bis zur Pensionierung etwas ruhiger angehen lassen. Aus diesem Grund ziehen er und seine Frau Rina Lazarus nach Greenbury in der Nähe von New York. Bis auf ein paar Führerscheinkontrollen bei betrunkenen Studenten passiert in dem kleinen College-Städtchen kaum etwas - und Decker langweilt sich. Als aus einer Familiengruft wertvolle Artefakte entwendet und gegen Fälschungen ersetzt werden, beginnt Decker voller Elan zu ermitteln und stößt im Umfeld der Kunstakademie auf einen Kunstfälscherring - dann wird die Leiche einer verdächtigen Studentin aufgefunden ...

Das Spiel mit der Angst kennt keine Regeln ...In seinen Jahren bei der Polizei von L. A. hatte Peter Decker schon so manchen harten Fall aufzuklären. Doch was ihn nun im Apartment des ermordeten Hobart Penny erwartet, sprengt all seine Vorstellungen: Die Wohnung gleicht einem Schlachtfeld, verwüstet, überall Blut - und mittendrin ein freilaufender sibirischer Tiger. Schnell entdecken Decker und seine Kollegen, dass der Tiger nicht das einzige exotische Haustier war, das sich der exzentrische Millionär Penny in seinem weit verzweigten Apartment hielt: Sie finden Schlangen, giftige Spinnen, raue Mengen an Fleischfutter - und abgetrennte menschliche Finger. Welches dunkle Geheimnis hatte der alte Penny noch?

No one working in the crime genre is better.Baltimore SunL.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back on a case in Hangmanan electrifying new novel of suspense from Faye Kellerman, New York Times bestselling author of Blindmans Bluff, The Mercedes Coffin, The Burnt House, and many other masterful thrillers. A stunning tale of crime and detection featuring the brutal death of a party girl health care worker, a mysterious disappearance, and the chilling return of an all-too-familiar sociopath, Hangman is Kellermans 21st bestseller to feature Decker and Lazarus, Hands down, the most refreshing mystery couple around. (People)

In the bleak wasteland of the Nevada desert, not far from the sparkling, twenty-four-hour neon of the world-famous Las Vegas Strip, the body of a once-beautiful showgirl is discovered, horribly mauled and mutilated. It is a horrendous crime, shocking in its brutality, excessive even for a city celebrated for its excess.Seasoned police veteran and Vegas native Detective Sergeant Romulus Poe has seen his fair share of depravity in this mecca of glitz and vice. But there is something about this unfortunate young woman's death?and a similar murder that is to follow soon after?that harkens back to an unsolved slaying and so-called suicide a quarter century ago. The grim similarities?along with some frightening new possibilities?are leading Poe into a night world of dark shadows best left unilluminated and pulling the inquisitive policeman toward secrets from a strange and sordid past that could destroy those closest to him, and drag him over the edge.

When Rina Lazarus discovers human remains in the woods near her home, her husband, Peter Decker, investigates related decades-old unsolved murders before identifying a possible suspect who has been hiding in plain sight.