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- ISBN: 9780062424969 (hardcover)
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414 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2017 February #1
In their twenty-fourth outing, Rina Lazarus and her police-detective husband, Peter Decker, once again put their heads together to solve a crime. On a hike near their home in Upstate New York, Rina stumbles upon a skeletal hand. The hand is attached to a corpse that has been buried in the woods for years. Working from the estimated age of the body, Rina talks to an old friend at the Five Colleges of Upstate and learns of several missing students who might fit the bill. Assisting Decker in his official investigation is his young Ivy League partner, Tyler McAdams. Another solid procedural with a cast of characters who have come to feel like family to series fans. Peter and Rina's playful and supportive relationship will appeal to followers of other husband-and-wife crime-solving teams, including Stephen White's Alan Gregory and Lauren Crowder. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2016 December #2
An unwelcome discovery Rina Lazarus makes on a woodsy trail begins what feels like an endless new investigation for her husband, Greenbury Police Detective Peter Decker (The Theory of Death, 2015, etc.). The skeletal hand Rina steps on has clearly been buried, not entirely successfully, for years, and the first challenge for the little Greenbury force is to figure out who the victim was and which of the fictitious Five Colleges she came from. The initial assumption that the corpse is female turns out to be only half-right, or both right and wrong: it's Lawrence Pettigrew, who dropped out of Morse McKinley seven years ago for the gender reassignment surgery that would make her Lorraine. Pettigrew's ambiguous gender statusâshe identified as female and took female hormones but never went through with the last surgical procedure that would have completed her transitionâis only the first of several intriguing matters Kellerman raises but doesn't resolve. Instead, the case circles back to the past when another corpse is improbably discovered 100 yards away: that of Delilah Occum, who vanished from Clarion College three years ago. It's a good thing Rina can use her contacts at Hillel to supply Decker and his very junior partner, Harvard Law student Tyler McAdams, with a list of students who've gone missing from the Five Colleges over the years, because there's no sign that the murders are over, and everyone in the area, from charismatic professors to drug suppliers to horny boyfriends, seems to be involved. The wide net Decker is forced to cast leads to false starts, dead ends, and eventually multiple arrests and several far more satisfying hours of sweating the perps in interrogation rooms just in time for Rina to turn away from her much-remarked handguns (are you listening, Anton Chekhov?) and start cooking for Rosh Hashana. A low-concept small-town procedural that delivers more authenticity than suspense, with so many forgettable suspec t s, witnesses, and potential victims that you'll need a grade book to keep them straight. Copyright Kirkus 2016 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 September #2
After Rina Lazarus finds a body in the woods, husband Peter Decker of the Greenbury, NY, police identifies the victim as a student from the area's Five Colleges of Upstate. More bodies turn up, and Peter asks Rina to act as his eyes and ears at the schools, where she works. With a 100,000-copy first printing.. Copyright 2016 Library Journal. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2016 December #3
In bestseller Kellerman's so-so 24th novel featuring Peter Decker, a retired LAPD homicide detective who now works for the Greenbury, N.Y., police, and his wife, Rina Lazarus (after 2015's
Copyright 2016 Publisher Weekly.The Theory of Death ), a routine morning hike for Rina becomes the catalyst for the search for a serial killer after she accidentally steps on skeletal remains, which may belong to one of several students reported missing in recent years from the so-called Five Colleges of Upstate. Peter and his sidekick, Tyler McAdams, an affluent law student who's spending his summer with the police and has become a virtual family member, investigate; the pair eventually identify the victim, before more skeletons are unearthed in the area of the original find. Rina inserts herself into the case, despite her husband's fears for her safety. The plot line unfolds predictably, and there's no real emotional tension, despite a spat between Peter and Rina over watching TV. Series fans will be pleased to learn that the couple's twin grandsons, although only seven, are basketball prodigies at their Philadelphia school.(Feb.)
