First printing. Novel featuring LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus. The small storefront synagogue where Rina is the unofficial caretaker has been descrated with anti-Semitic grafitti and photographs of death camp victims, SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 66267

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Title: THE FORGOTTEN: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus...

Publisher: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins)

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: FINE

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Having submitted for counseling a troubled wealthy teen who desecrated a synagogue, Rina Lazarus discovers there is more to the case when the boy and his therapists are murdered. 250,000 first printing.

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LA homicide detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, his Orthodox Jewish wife, return in The Forgotten, a new entry in Faye Kellerman's popular series. Kellerman can be counted on to deliver emotional complexity along with suspense, and 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 vandalised the synagogue, but when he and his therapists are murdered months after the incident, Peter realises 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.

Kellerman skilfully 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 describes 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. The Forgotten is a memorable addition to the Kellerman oeuvre. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com

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