Milk and Honey

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

In the silent pre-dawn city hours -- alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New York -- LAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered in blood that is not hers. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps forward to claim the little girl. Obsessed more deeply by this case than he imagined possible, Decker is determined to follow the scant clues to an answer. But his trail is leading him to a killing ground where four bodies lie still and lifeless. And by the time Rina returns, Peter Decker is already held fast in a sticky mass of hatred, passion, and murder -- in a world where intense sweetness is accompanied by a deadly sting.

©1990 Faye Kellerman; (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers

Decker and Rina and a host of memorables

This latest installment in the series brings back all of the characters we've come to know and introduces us to a face from Decker's past. New insights into the character while solving more twisted crimes. Does not dissapoint.

dragged

I like Faye Kellerman but couldn't stay with this story. Usually I like the whole Decker thing but this must have been written before she refined her characters. It dragged and the thisonesaid this and thatonesaid that was exasperating. I quit halfway through part 1. Sure would like to know what happened to the little kid but just couldn't take anymore.

Milk and Honey

Good book -you will not be disappointed

interesting peek into Jewish Orthodoxy

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Probably not. Our reading hours are too short; so why go for an average book? I do remember reading this when it was newly released in 1990 and I liked it much better then than I do today. Some of what turned me off was the use of the n-word, and some views that seem close-minded to me today.

I will say that I didn't guess the culprit right up front. The ending had an element of surprise to me and that is always a good thing when reading a mystery.

Good Story

the series is beginning to spend too much fluff time on the relationship between Decker and Rena but not very high quality conversations amongst them, seems they only fight and screw and fight and screw now.
the Macho misogynistic language is atrocious! you can tell this is over 2 decades old!
Decker really rubbed me the wrong way as a character in this installment with his 'my woman ' commentary.
the story of the crime is definitely the highlight (as it should be!). the story is both creative and entertaining. shame the book did not stretch far enough to fit more story details to overshadow the bad characters' stories and backgrounds- what really was the point of the friend sleeping with some rich woman? didn't do much to sway opinion any which way about this weak filler.
I might buy the next one. after this one, not sure.