false 152354 17 L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, his Orthodox Jewish wife, return in a new entry in this popular series. Faye Kellerman can be counted on to deliver emotional complexity along with suspense, and in <I>The Forgotten</I> it comes from the relationship between Peter and Jacob, Rina's troubled teenage son. Jacob has a personal connection to the event that sets off this intricately plotted novel, the defacing of Rina's synagogue by one of his classmates. Ernesto Golding can't explain why he vandalized the synagogue, but when he and his therapists are murdered months after the incident, Peter realizes that something the teenager told him when admitting his guilt may hold the key to the killings: Ernesto's belief that his grandfather may have been a Nazi who posed as a Jew to escape to South America after the war. Investigating Ernesto's story gives Rina a strand of the plot to tease out; meanwhile, Peter concentrates on another motive for the therapist murders that involves computer fraud, the College Board exams, and the high cost exacted by parents who pressure their teenagers to succeed.<p> Kellerman skillfully keeps the dramatic tension going as she pulls all the pieces of her complex plot together. But what makes this novel her best yet is her acutely revealing portrait of Jacob, struggling with the existential angst of adolescence as he attempts to reconcile his devotion to Judaism with the temptations of contemporary life, from drugs to sex. She brilliantly limns his search for identity, intimacy, and independence even as he redefines his relationship to Peter and Rina, in a scenario that resounds with psychological truth. <I>The Forgotten</I> is a terrific addition to the Kellerman oeuvre. While she's always been an exceptional illustrator of the emotional life of the family, this time she writes with an expertise that may owe something to professional insights of her husband, author Jonathan Kellerman, who's also a child psychologist. <I>--Jane Adams</I> 4679281 2000 The Forgotten (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #13) total:564|5:121|4:231|3:186|2:22|1:4| 564 2135 765 20 4 0 false false Fri May 29 11:18:48 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 11:20:29 -0700 2009 Amazon:
L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, his Orthodox Jewish wife, return in a new entry in this popular series. Faye Kellerman can be counted on to deliver emotional complexity along with suspense, and in...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 10 13:03:56 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 11:58:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 02 00:32:29 -0700 2008 Sun May 24 07:51:26 -0700 2009
While the last book centered on Cindy, this one focused on Decker's son Jake, I guess you could call him the problem child of the family. As much as I enjoy the crime aspects of this series (this one centered (very roughly) o...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Wed Apr 29 17:34:09 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 17:35:20 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 00:45:20 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 01:01:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 18:27:37 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 06:52:45 -0700 2009 Faye Kellerman manages to intersperse holocaust education and general information about the Jewish faith while serving up a good whodunit. ]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 23 10:10:44 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 10:58:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon May 25 11:13:12 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 11:15:05 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 01 15:28:05 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 15:28:19 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri May 23 08:52:47 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 08:52:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 16:25:02 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 22:36:08 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 15:28:27 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 15:28:27 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Fri Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 13:05:28 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 13:09:43 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 13:07:47 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 09:51:48 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 05 18:51:41 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 18:59:10 -0800 2008 1 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 03 10:29:44 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 10:30:43 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 12:12:45 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 09:43:15 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jun 27 19:30:36 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 19:31:37 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 27 11:02:45 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 11:03:21 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Tue Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 16:40:32 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 16:50:02 -0700 2008
I say skip it.]]>