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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
This one was a step up from the last couple Decker/Lazarus novels -- definitely feels less "phoned in". So that's nice! I like the new storyline involving Gabe.
This is one of my favorite detective series, and Faye Kellerman did not disappoint with this book. In the last book she brought in the new character Gabe, and she did a great job developing him in this installment. It is a fast-paced, but also personal story. I am anticipating the next book to see what she has in store for her newest characters, and the old ones too!
I started to think this was a simply constructed police procedural. But as I continued to read I started to care more and more about the characters and wanted to cheer them on. All-in-all a nicely layered story about police grinding out a solution (it doesn't happen over night) on top of a teenage romance.
I have always enjoyed Decker/Lazarus novels but I think it has been too long since I read any. I found myself to be confused during this story because I couldn't remember who some of the characters they were talking about where- Chris and the serial killer suspect were the big two. I think I am going to have to go back to the beginning and read this series again!
Not as good as previous novels by same author. Went a little overboard on the teen sex.
Aborda un tema actual como es el bullying y el suicidio en adolescentes la parte de los enamorados me hirió un poco no iba a la par con l resto de la lectura y ralentizaba el libro.
I am glad I read the book. There were some inconsistencies with the writing that was a bit distracting from the story. This was not Ms. Kellerman's best work.
I read tons of young adult fiction. Kellerman had no sense of YA dialogue. If this had been the first book I read by her, I'd never read another. Do we really need to know what Decker's coworkers are wearing every day? One of those books that made me glad I'm a speed reader, so I could skim through and see if it improved. It didn't.
At the end of her 2010 novel Hangman, Los Angeles police lieutenant Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus Decker became the unofficial foster parents of Gabe Whitman, the teenaged son of two young people Decker had dealt with during their own teenage years. Gabe's father is a mob hitman and his mother has left the country to be with a new husband, fearing for her life.
Decker and his team begin to examine the suicide of a student at a posh private school, seeing little evidence at first that it is anything other than what it's been ruled -- a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But another such death at the same school is more than a coincidence, and the pieces of the puzzle start to add up the wrong way, uncovering some disturbed and disturbing young lives. The expanding investigation may pull Gabe into its midst, perhaps also threatening his relationship with a young woman that has to be secret because of her family's closed culture and religion. Persian Jews, they would not approve of their daughter's involvement with a secular young man like Gabe.
The mystery is intriguing and the characterizations match Kellerman's usual skillful output. Gabe seems rather adult for his years, but he's had that kind of upbringing. He also seems a little "too good to be true" as a boyfriend for his young sweetheart, demonstrating a level of sensitivity that's matched by few adult men, let alone teenage boys. Kellerman's descriptions of their trysts are really too graphic considering the ages of the participants and drops the otherwise entertaining Gun Games well to the bottom of the Decker-Lazarus series.
Original available here.
Decker and his team begin to examine the suicide of a student at a posh private school, seeing little evidence at first that it is anything other than what it's been ruled -- a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But another such death at the same school is more than a coincidence, and the pieces of the puzzle start to add up the wrong way, uncovering some disturbed and disturbing young lives. The expanding investigation may pull Gabe into its midst, perhaps also threatening his relationship with a young woman that has to be secret because of her family's closed culture and religion. Persian Jews, they would not approve of their daughter's involvement with a secular young man like Gabe.
The mystery is intriguing and the characterizations match Kellerman's usual skillful output. Gabe seems rather adult for his years, but he's had that kind of upbringing. He also seems a little "too good to be true" as a boyfriend for his young sweetheart, demonstrating a level of sensitivity that's matched by few adult men, let alone teenage boys. Kellerman's descriptions of their trysts are really too graphic considering the ages of the participants and drops the otherwise entertaining Gun Games well to the bottom of the Decker-Lazarus series.
Original available here.