Gun Games is the twentieth title in the Decker/Lazarus series by best-selling author Faye Kellerman. Peter Decker is an LAPD detective whose wife, Rina Lazarus, often ends up solving cases with him. They are also Orthodox Jews, with Peter having returned to his Jewish roots after meeting Rina. Although I have read a few of…
Category Archives: Fiction
The Street Sweeper
The Street Sweeper reminds me, organizationally, of looking at the back of a piece of embroidery. There are plots and story-lines running everywhere, and at first it feels chaotic. However, by the end, you are looking in awe at a beautifully-finished piece of story-telling. This is an awesome book, well worth the time commitment required…
The Starlite Drive-in
The discovery of human remains at the old Starlite Drive-In theatre brings up in razor-sharp detail the events of the summer of 1956 for Callie Anne Benton. The drive-in bounded her world and that of her parents—her father managed the place, out in the country several miles from the nearest town, and her mother, suffering…
First You Try Everything
A novel about a marriage dissolving is not the type of reading material I normally gravitate to, and I have to say that the 50 page rule was under serious consideration for First You Try Everything. But before I knew it I was way past page 50 and diving in head-first. Evvie and Ben have…
The Confession
When a dying man walks into Ian Rutledge’s office at Scotland Yard and announces he wants to confess to a murder committed 5 years earlier, during the first World War, Rutledge is unconvinced. The story is lacking in details, for one, and there’s no body or missing person report. Rutledge is curious enough to begin…
Chasing Mona Lisa, with Giveaway
In late 2009, I reviewed The Swiss Courier by Tricia Goyer and Mike Yorkey. In this novel, Gabi Mueller, a young woman working for the American Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA) in Switzerland experiences excitement, peril, and love in the midst of World War II. I enjoyed this novel (as I…
Come In and Cover Me
Once in a while a book comes along that focuses on a subject I know absolutely nothing about, and incorporates that material into a story that both intrigues and educates the reader. Come In and Cover Me is one of those books. Ren is an archaeologist in search of bowls made by an artist from…
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