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Perennial New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman has enthralled readers for more than a decade with masterworks of riveting suspense featuring dedicated cop Peter Decker and his wise and giving soul mate, wife Rina Lazarus. With Stalker, Kellerman ratchets up the tension when a new generation dons the blue.
A first-year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, Cynthia Decker became a cop against her father's wishes. But police work is in her blood, and she's determined to make it on her own. Although her time in uniform has been brief, her instincts for danger are razor sharp.
A harrowing trip down a dark canyon road substantiates Cindy's worst fear: someone with decidedly evil intentions is stalking her.
Cindy is fiercely independent and her stubborn pride will not allow her to confide in her father or her stepmother, Rina. As her stalker grows bolder and more devious, Cindy finds her options limited, her friends and colleagues off-bounds -- as the well-concealed rages and dark secrets of those surrounding her slowly come to light and threaten to pull a nightmare out of the shadows and in for the kill.
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Faye Kellerman's latest thriller features Cynthia Decker, daughter of Peter Decker, familiar to readers of the author's previous novels featuring the L.A. detective and his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus. In Kellerman's earlier books, we've met Cynthia briefly as a difficult adolescent upset by her parents' divorce and later as an Ivy League college student with an interest in following her overly protective father into the family business: solving crimes. Now Cynthia's a young L.A. cop who's the subject of what at first seems like innocent-enough teasing from her colleagues. They think she's snooty and standoffish and riding on her father's reputation. Actually, she's all of those things, which makes for a somewhat less than sympathetic heroine:
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Beaudry said, "Every time we start shooting the bull, talking about the day, you say things like, 'Yeah, my father once had a case like that.'"As the teasing escalates, Cindy's stalked, threatened, and finally frightened, although it pains her to admit it. There's a killer on the loose, and even if she's not the best cop on the force, she knows enough to turn to her father for help. But first, she has a brief affair with one of the men under his command. It seems a little too obvious a ploy for Daddy's attention and hardly adds to her character--we already know she's immature and a bit of a bitch. But at least this maneuver brings Peter back on the scene, allowing Kellerman to hit her stride as she gets back to a character who holds the reader's interest because he's more than two-dimensional. Sadly, Cindy's not quite ready for prime time; perhaps she'll grow up in her next outing. Or better yet, Kellerman will bring us more adventures by Peter and Rina. --Jane Adams"I'm trying to relate."
"It pisses people off. It makes them think that their experiences are nothin' special. Everyone wants to feel special. You already feel special because you've got all this college. You gotta remember that the average Joe on the force is a high school graduate, maybe a couple of years at a junior college like me. If you're real smart, okay, you do a four-year state, then enter the academy with the idea of doing the gold."
"Like my dad--"
"Stop mentioning your dad. He isn't a legend, Decker, he's a pencil pusher."
Jay O. Sanders, one of Audiofile Magazine's Golden Voices, has narrated over 60 audiobooks. He has been seen on Broadway in Pygmalion and Off-Broadway in Stuff Happens (Drama Desk Award) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bayfield Award). His films include Half Nelson, The Day After Tomorrow, Kiss the Girls, Daylight, Angels in the Outfield, and JFK.
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- PublisherIsis Publishing
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0753164205
- ISBN 13 9780753164204
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages592
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