The Burnt House LP (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)
by Faye Kellerman
Book Summary Information
Author: Faye KellermanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Large Print
Published: 2007-08-01
ISBN: 0061259519
Number of pages: 672
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Book Reviews of The Burnt House LP (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)
Book Review: A Dense Mystery Penetrated by Careful Police Procedure
Summary: 5 Stars
This book will delight those who like mysteries that are very difficult to solve before the author reveals the story's resolution.
If you mainly read the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus books to focus on their life together, you'll think this is one of the worst books in the series. If you like puzzles, however, you'll feel fully rewarded by the challenging of determining what happened to flight attendant, Roseanne Dresden. Along the way, you'll pick up some unexpected twists that also make for good mystery reading.
This plot relies on a lot of coincidences. That can be troubling for a reader to swallow, but in real life coincidence occurs so often that we often don't even bother to remark on it. There is a subgenre of police procedural that relies on having more than one case mixed up in an investigation. I thought that the premise for this mystery was stronger than most books in that subgenre. But what distinguished the book was that the resolutions proved to be so difficult to anticipate. I dislike mysteries where you can see the solution beginning to take shape around page 50. In this case, Ms. Kellerman did an excellent job of keeping the resolution hidden until very near the end.
From reading this book, I hope that Ms. Kellerman will write more books that contain difficult puzzles whose solutions only gradually reveal themselves through police investigations.
Bravo, Ms. Kellerman!
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