Prayers for the Dead [Paperback]

Faye Kellerman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Morrow; 1St Edition edition (1996)
• ASIN: B000GLZV4S
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,689,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Faye Kellerman is the author of twenty-six novels, including nineteen New York Times bestselling mysteries that feature the husband-and-wife team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. She has also penned two best selling short novels with her husband, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, and recently has teamed up with her daughter, Aliza, to co-write a teen novel, entitled PRISM. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hang in there..., June 24, 2002

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D. Campbell "theaterd" (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prayers for the Dead (a Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the first Faye Kellerman novel that I have read. I enjoy her husband's books very much, so I gave her a try. The story seemed to take quite awhile to get going. At first the character development was not the pace I enjoy, but I'm very glad I continued the book. I wound up enjoying her characters, the plot twists, pretty much everything about it. It even piqued my curiosity about Judaism more so than I have ever been. Thumbs up, my dear. I am definitely buying more of this series.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The weakest link so far in the Decker/Lazarus series, August 3, 2006

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JHM "jensays" (Flushing, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prayers for the Dead (a Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel) (Mass Market Paperback)

The book starts off well, as a mystery should, with the events of the murder of Dr. Sparks. But then it spends the next 300 or so pages batting back and forth, and not really going anywhere. Plus the relationship between Rita Lazarus' deceased husband and the priest are totally incongruious, as I'm sure Kellerman realized when she threw in this rather burdensome plot twist.
However, the end of the book really does pull some surprises. You just have to plod through the middle to get there. Not her best work.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing Read and Series, December 17, 2005

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M. Levitt - classical music buff (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prayers for the Dead (a Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel) (Mass Market Paperback)

This was my first Faye Kellerman novel involving Dectective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. I thoroughly enjoyed it, read the sequel, and then the first novel in the Peter Decker/ Rina Lazarus series, Ritual Bath, piqued by how these two characters met, and how their relationship evolves.

The best novels in this series employ gripping, page turning mysteries, the human aspect of the evolving relationship between Peter and Rina, and explanations of Judaism in somewhat the same way as Harry Kemelman's Rabbi David Small mysteries, or the older G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, the latter combining great mysteries with interesting explications of Catholicism.

Warning: You might get hooked to the series!