by Faye Kellerman
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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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 Disappointment, 2008-09-24
Burnt House was my second attempt at reading Faye Kellerman. I'm a HUGE fan of Faye Kellerman's husband, Jonathan Kellerman but haven't been able to get into her novels.
My biggest problem with Burnt House is the fact that Decker doesn't believe in coincidences. However, TWO cases have intersected in a very big way and unless I missed something, it was never addressed or acknowledged. I also felt that the storyline got bogged down by a lot of seemingly unnecessary details.
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 Another excellent Decker-Lazarus mystery, 2008-09-15
This suspenseful, entertaining mystery begins as a commuter plane crashes into an apartment house in California's West San Fernando Valley, not far from the Deckers' house, and bursts into flames. The LAPD's Lieutenant Peter Decker is called to the scene. The crash, later found to be caused by a mechanical failure, presents Decker with a baffling mystery: There is no sign of a flight attendant who had reportedly been on the plane and perished in the crash, but in the ruins of the building, searchers find the body of an unidentified young woman, apparently killed by a blow to the head about 30 years ago.
I really liked this book, with its combination of fast-paced police procedural, interesting characters, and portrayals of different cultures. As usual, we get glimpses of the Orthodox Jewish family life of Rina and Peter and family, plus in this installment we are also taken to Santa Fe, where we get to meet a traditional native family of that distinctive culture. If you like to read about delicious food, these two families give us plenty of it! And it was good to find out how Peter's colleague Marge and her adopted daughter, Vega (rescued from a cult in a previous book), are doing.
This book is a page-turner and a very enjoyable read. And I'm looking forward to reading the next one.
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Is someone anorexic?, 2008-09-03
This was an OK book. I did get angry when Kellerman described Cathy, a secondary character who was the niece of the parents of a murder victim, as 5'4 and 'tipping the scales' at 125 lbs. Is that a heavy weight? I wouldn't think so, and neither do tables for desirable weights created by Met Life, the US Army and the US National Center for Health Statistics.
This type of attitude pops up in Kellerman's books from time to time. She constantly describes Marge Dunn in terms that make her sound like Shamu the Whale when you would expect that a police detective would have enough muscle mass to handle tough situations.
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Got the Brass Ring!, 2008-08-08
I've been reading Faye Kellerman's books for at least 7 years and The Burnt House is her best yet. In my opinion she has become a "page-turner" author and I just couldn't put this book down! The Burnt House has everything a reader of mystery wants.
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 Somewhat disappointing read, 2008-07-31
Shortly after 8 a.m. a commuter plane takes off from Burbank airport. It will never reach cruising altitude. Instead it will crash into an apartment building, incinerate it, and both cover up and uncover two murders-one that happened that day, and one that happened over twenty years earlier.
Pete Decker is an LAPD Detective Lieutenant. It will be up to him and his team to figure out who died, and when. And as things progress Decker has more suspects, not less. Roseanne Dresden, a WestAir flight attendant went missing the same time as the plane crash and her stepfather is convinced that her husband is to blame for her death and that her body will be found in the ashes. He's equally convinced that the police don't care and the only way to get action is to stay in Decker's face.
Then there's Dresden's mysterious paramour. Her husband constantly played around, so why shouldn't she? She had broken off the affair-or had she? Mix that in with a twenty-year-old, defunct pot-smoking, free-love church group that lived commune-like in the apartment building that burned in the crash. Two members that went missing and there's plenty to keep both you and Lt. Decker guessing-and chasing.
Kellerman surrounds Decker with a cast of characters that add depth to the story. I felt that the story got bogged down with overly long explanations of the family celebrations of religious holidays and the meals that go with them. I'd welcome these stories in another type of book but here I felt they slowed the action without adding much meaning. On the other hand the character development of family and friends involved in providing thinking and resources used to solve the case added to the story for me.
Armchair Interviews says: Lt. Decker is back in the thick of things again.
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