Book Reviews of Day of Atonement (Peter Decker, Rina Lazarus #4)

Very good book! Keeping the story line going in the series, Peter and Rina are visiting family friends in NY. While there Peter is in for the shock of his life and also has to cut his honeymoon short to work the case of a missing boy belonging to the family. He and Rina fly back home to LA after the missing boy not knowing just how much danger the boy is in. Keeps you guessing.

Peter and Rina are on their honeymoon in Brooklyn, not exactly what Peter would have planned. He also would not have planned meeting his birth mother or becoming involved in a family problem concerning a teenage son who has disappeared.

This book was not an easy read for me. The story was compelling as were the side stories. Kellerman showed what strains are probably going to happen between Peter and Rina when it comes to his work and her desire to "help". However, the antagonist of the book was just a bit too crazy and brutal for me. I found myself skipping past the bits describing the murders or their aftermath. Maybe, I just wasn't in the right mindset as I was reading......I don't know. I do know that Kellerman does a good job of giving a word picture of a psychotic killer and his mindset.

We'll see how the next one goes.

Police detective meets devout Jewish woman & marries her. In this book they are on their honeymoon in NY visiting her in-laws from her first husband who is died. Not the best place for a honeymoon. However, they manage to get themselves involved in a search for a missing teenaged boy.

Peter Decker of the LAPD never dreamed he'd be spending his honeymoon with his new wife, Rina Lazarus, in an orthodox jewish enclave in Brooklyn, New York-or that a terrible event would end it so abrubtly. But a boy has vanished from the midst of this close-knit religious community, a troubled youth fleeing the tight bonds and strictures he felt were strangling him. The runaway, Noam, is not traveling alone. A killer has taken him under his wing to introduce Noam to a savage world of blood and terror. And now Decker must find them both somewhere in America before a psycopath ends the life of a confused and frightened youngster whose only sin was to want something more.

A great Peter/Rina novel. Always so much information about the Jewish culture, great for myth-busting, but also a wonderful mysterious read!

These books are getting better every time. I can't wait for the next one. I don't want to spoil this one for anyone but there is a really exciting discovery in this book.

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The second Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus book - GREAT!!!

I found this book to be extremely entertaining. One of the best in the series!

A good mystery with a little look into Orthodox Jewish culture on the side.

one of my favorite series - love the relationship for Peter and Rina

When Los Angeles detective Peter Decker and new wife Rina Lazarus visit her Jewish kinfolks in Brooklyn, startling events disturb their honeymoon. Quite unexpectedly and with great antipathy, Decker--an adoptee--recognizes his natural mother at a holiday gathering. Before he can confront her, though, her troubled 14-year-old grandson goes missing and Decker, fortuitously on hand, begins the search. Soon after he learns that the boy has taken up with a dangerously disturbed and vicious young man, the scene switches to Los Angeles. Hard-hitting details, vignettes of Jewish life, and uncomfortably close glimpses of a cold-hearted psycho make this an entrancing page turner. Not to be missed