Gun Games (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus) - Softcover

Kellerman, Faye

3.89

6,638 ratings by Goodreads

9780062106988: Gun Games (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus)

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ISBN 10: 0062106988 ISBN 13: 9780062106988

Publisher: Harperluxe, 2012

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“[Kellerman] does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch

“No one working in the crime genre is better.”
—Baltimore Sun

In Gun Games, the sensational Faye Kellerman once again showcases Peter Decker of the LAPD and Rina Lazarus, arguably the most popular husband and wife team in contemporary crime fiction. A rash of shocking adolescent suicides at an elite Los Angeles private school is at the heart of this gripping thriller that also focuses on the troubled teen Decker and Lazarus have brought into their home: Gabriel Whitman, the son of a psychopath. Herself one-half of one of noir fiction’s true “power couples”—along with her husband, acclaimed mystery writer Jonathan Kellerman—Faye Kellerman once again demonstrates how American police procedural writing is done to perfection with Gun Games.

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Review:

'Kellerman is an excellent writer' The Times

'Very exciting' Daily Mail

'Brutal but thoughtful and well-plotted, fast-moving and well told' Observer

'Sensational' Mirror

'Kellerman creates a claustrophobic atmosphere, against a background of seediness, violence and distrust' Sunday Telegraph

'Kellerman moves her gritty mean streets LA plot along with breakneck pace' Irish Independent

From the Back Cover:

LAPD lieutenant detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, have welcomed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Whitman, the son of a troubled former friend, into their home. While the enigmatic teen seems to be adapting easily, Decker knows the secrets adolescents keep—witnessed by the tragic suicide of another teen, Gregory Hesse, a student at Bell and Wakefield, one of the city’s most exclusive schools.

Gregory’s mother, Wendy, refuses to believe her son shot himself and convinces Decker to look deeper. The case becomes darkly complicated by the suicide of another Bell and Wakefield student—a death that leads them to uncover a nasty group of rich and privileged students with a predilection for guns and violence. Decker thought he understood kids, yet the closer he and his team get to the truth, the clearer it becomes that he knows very little about them, including his own charge, Gabe.

Before it’s over, the case and all its terrifying ramifications will take Decker and his detectives down a dark alley of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances, culminating into a heart-stopping point of no return.Faye Kellerman is the author of twenty-seven novels. She lives with her husband, in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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