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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780380817696
ISBN number: 0380817691
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: July 01, 2001
Publishing house: Avon
Release Date: June 26, 2007
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L.A. Homicide Detective Peter Decker never wanted the perils of his job to touch his family. But now his two worlds have collided.
A very first year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, Cynthia Decker became a cop against her father, Peter Decker's, wishes. But police work is in her blood, and she's determined to make it on her own -- even now, when her razor sharp instincts for danger are telling her that something is very wrong...
The signs are impossible to ignore: things being moved around in her apartment, the destruction of personal effects. But it's a harrowing trip down a dark canyon road that confirms Cindy's worst fears. Someone fiendishly relentless, and with decidedly evil intentions, is stalking her. And with Peter Decker isolated from her troubles by his own investigation into a disturbing series of car-jackings, it's up to Cindy alone to find out who in her personal and/or professional life wants her frightened or harmed...or dead.
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Faye Kellerman's latest thriller features Cynthia Decker, daughter of Peter Decker, familiar to readers of the author's previous novels featuring the L.A. detective and his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus. In Kellerman's earlier books, we've met Cynthia briefly as a difficult adolescent upset by her parents' divorce and later as an Ivy League college student with an interest in following her overly protective father into the family business: solving crimes. Now Cynthia's a young L.A. cop who's the subject of what at very first seems like innocent-enough teasing from her colleagues. They think she's snooty and standoffish and riding on her father's reputation. Actually, she's all of those things, which makes for a somewhat less than sympathetic heroine: Beaudry said, 'Every time we start shooting the bull, talking about the day, you say things like, 'Yeah, my father once had a case like that.''
'I'm trying to relate.'
'It pisses people off. It makes them think that their experiences are nothin' special. Everyone wants to feel special. You already feel special because you've got all this college. You gotta remember that the average Joe on the force is a high school graduate, maybe a couple of years at a junior college like me. If you're real smart, okay, you do a four-year state, then enter the academy with the idea of doing the gold.'
'Like my dad--'
'Stop mentioning your dad. He isn't a legend, Decker, he's a pencil pusher.'
As the teasing escalates, Cindy's stalked, threatened, and finally frightened, although it pains her to admit it. There's a killer on the loose, and even if she's not the best cop on the force, she knows enough to turn to her father for help. But first, she has a brief affair with one of the men under his command. It seems a little too obvious a ploy for Daddy's attention and hardly adds to her character--we already know she's immature and a bit of a bitch. But at least this maneuver brings Peter back on the scene, allowing Kellerman to hit her stride as she gets back to a character who holds the reader's interest because he's more than two-dimensional. Sadly, Cindy's not quite ready for prime time; perhaps she'll grow up in her subsequent outing. Or better yet, Kellerman will bring us more adventures by Peter and Rina. --Jane Adams
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I generally like the plot of the story, but find the extensive emphasis on the fine points of Judaism intrusive and irrelevant. Seems that whenever we get moving on the mystery, it suddenly runs aground on pages of "religious" stuff. I've never read another mystery writer who does this (and I read lots of this genre), regardless of their particular religious persuasion, so one wonders if Ms. Kellerman is working through some personal problems in her writing.
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Stalker by Faye Kellerman has a faster pace than her usual. The suspense keeps you glued to the page when you should be doing something else, like sleeping. Cindy Decker is determine to blend in with the cops she works with, but not all the boys are receptive to letting the girls play in their games. It may sound childish, but there is a lot of it still out there and for a female cop it can be deadly. Cindy can be forgiven her stubborness, but she makes some realy dumb moves for a woman who should know better, I expected more from her. As always in Kellerman's stories, family is a big part of it all. In this brave new world where women are allowed to have as much courage as men, if you add in a few insecure egos and one woman's determination to do it all on her own you have all the makings for a great tale.
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The book's beginning was wonderful but as you keep reading the story keeps boring you. The last hundred pages or so when the thrilling part must be at pinnacle the book goes out of the main plot so many times that you'll forget what are you reading. When you read a book that could be written with tenfold pages less the book is worthless. You can find many books better than this one.
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I started reading this series of books in order, and found some of them better than others. The tension and the suspense keep me hooked, even with the flaws. I have just started The Forgotten, and hope it is better than Stalker. I have to put part of the blame on Kellerman's editors, because there are so many loose ends, things left unexplained. That really bothers me. And the over use of the F word gets very, very old. (I frequently eat in the same restaurant with cops, and they really don't talk like that.) I am trying to like Cindy, but it is hard. She is a brat, I can forgive her for that, but to have an affair with Scott Oliver, who is her father's age and a known sleezeball. Eeeeew! Cindy has no redeemable qualities that I can see. I hope that Kellerman can clean up her act and get this series back on track. I don't understand why it is called the Peter Decker Rina Lazarus series, when Rina rarely plays a part in any of the books anymore (like she did before Hannah was born). I love Peter Decker as a character, though. I see Ted Levine (Det. Stottlemeyer on the show Monk) playing him, if the books ever become movies or a TV series. Keep 'em coming, Kellerman! Just make sure your editor does his/her job from now on regarding continuity!
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Started reading F.Kellerman this summer. Began with the RITUAL BATH.
Just finifshed STALKER and onto The FORGOTTEN.
Never a let down. Exciting and quick reads.
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