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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780061227325
ISBN number: 0061227323
Label: William Morrow
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: August 01, 2007
Publishing house: William Morrow
Release Date: August 07, 2007
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At 8:15 in the morning, a small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, California. Shock waves ripple through Los Angeles, as L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime to calm rampant fears of a 9/11-type terror attack. But a grisly mystery lives inside the plane's charred and twisted wreckage: the unidentified bodies of four extra travelers. And there is no sign of an airline employee who was supposedly on the catastrophic flight.
Decker and his wife, Rina, have personal reasons for being profoundly shaken by the tragedy, since the 'accident' occurred frighteningly close to their daughter Hannah's school. Luckily, their child and her schoolmates escaped unscathed. But the fate of the unaccounted-for flight attendant—twenty-eight-year-old Roseanne Dresden—remains a question mark more than a month after the horrific event, when the young woman's irate stepfather calls, insisting that she was never onboard the doomed plane. Instead, he claims, she was most likely murdered by her abusive, unfaithful husband. But why, then, was Roseanne's name included on the passenger list?
Under intense pressure from the department to come up with answers, Decker launches an investigation that carries him down a path of tragic history, dangerous secrets, and deadly lies—and leads him to the corpse of a three-decades-missing murder victim. And as the jagged pieces slowly fall into place, a frightening picture begins to form: a mind-searing portrait of unimaginable evil that will challenge Decker's and Rina's own beliefs about guilt and innocence and justice.
Combining relentless suspense with intense, multilayered human drama, The Burnt House is Faye Kellerman at her mesmerizing best.
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A West Air commuter jet takes off from Burbank Airport bound for San Jose, California. The plane was climbing to cruising altitude when suddenly it yawed to port and reversed its climb. The plane dove back to earth and crashed with deadly force and exploded into an eighteen-unit apartment building.
The crash site was located in the community of Granada Hills some twenty miles northwest of Los Angeles.
Fire, police and rescue teams rushed to the scene to find no survivors. Once the fire was out and the body count didn't add up the Los Angeles Police Department, West Valley Division led by Detective Lieutenant Decker began the search for flight attendant Roseanne Dresden. The search for Roseanne turns into a possible murder investigation.
Kellerman sets up a twisted plot by throwing in an extra body of an unidentified murder victim into the crash scene. As it turned out that murder occurred thirty years before the crash.
The book is well written but at times the storyline is implausible and the pace is tedious. There were far too many conversations full of small talk that didn't advance the plot. Long-winded interrogations added to the slow pace and officers repeating information from those scenes to associates didn't help.
That being said I read on to the bitter end - page 464 thinking all the while it would have been a better read had it been only 320 pages.
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I am an avid reader of every Faye and Jonathan Kellerman book. His haven't disappointed me yet, but "The Burnt House" was a huge disappointment for me. I had looked forward to reading this book so much, since Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus have always proven to be enjoyable reading of the best kind (entertaining and informative - I have learned so much about religion and lifestyle from these books), but this entry into the series disappointed me.
The plotline is so faulty, I have no idea how the editor could let the book go to publication and the character's development is virtually non-existant.
I really hope the subsequent one is better!
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I was in the middle of reading "The Burnt House",by Faye Kellerman, when I lost the book. Needless to say, I did not want to buy this soft cover edition again and was delighted to find a used copy in alsmost prisitine condition on Amazon.Com. The price was right and the delivery sooner thsn I expected for regular mailing. A pleasure to do business...Ralla Klepak, Esq.
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Although I'm sure I'm incorrect in most of the details, I sometimes picture the writing careers of Jonathan and Faye Kellerman as being sort of like A Star is Born. Jonathan was the very first to be an established writer, and soon, Faye would follow. For a while, he was the star, but now--despite his continued bestselling numbers--his quality has faded considerably, and Faye is now clearly the better of the two. Within the past month or so, I've read one book from each of them. Jonathan Kellerman's Compulsion was another dud, and Faye Kellerman's The Burnt House is another good work.
The title residence is actually an apartment building in which a commuter plan has crashed into shortly after its takeoff from Burbank heading towards San Jose. The accident has occurred very close to the Granada Hills home of Peter and Rina Decker, and even closer to the school of their daughter Hannah. Fortunately, all are fine, but Peter, a police lieutenant who oversees homicide investigations, finds that there is still much to be done after the fires have been put out.
In particular, Roseanne Dresden, though listed as one of the crash victims, is alleged by her step-father to have never been on the flight. She has disappeared, however, and the step-father suspects her philandering husband. Decker and his detectives try to determine if she was on the flight, but the airline refuses to disclose any information and there are no remains found at the crash site that belong to her.
A body is found, but it is not Rosanne; instead, it is a much older corpse apparently stashed in the apartment building decades ago and exposed after the crash. This leads to a second mystery, in trying to determine who the victim is and who killed her. Sadly, the resolution of this second plot will hinge on an incredible coincidence that Kellerman doesn't really even try to justify.
This coincidence hurts The Burnt House, but not irreparably; overall, this remains a good book. Why does Faye Kellerman continue to succeed while her husband slides downhill? As much as anything, it has to do with characters: Faye has created a world with a bunch of well-defined characters who have grown over time (in fact, my one continued gripe with the series is that is marketed as a Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery, when Rina has not used that last name in over a decade of fictional or real time). It's been a little while since Kellerman has written a book in the series, but for her fans, it is worth that wait.
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I thought I would purchase a Faye Kellerman book, based only on the fact that I enjoy Jonathan Kellerson so much. Never again. Dialogue is ridiculous, stilted, and unreal. Nobody would ever say the things that her characters say. If she is going for only comedy, maybe this would be o.k., but I assume she's trying to be serious. Overuse of names (first and last) - far too many names intefering with the story. I had to skim the last half of the book just to see how it ended...didn't feel like wasting my time. Never again.
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