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'Kellerman is an excellent writer' The Times 'Very exciting' Daily Mail 'Brutal but thoughtful and well plotted, fast moving and well told' Observer 'Sensational' Mirror 'Kellerman creates a claustrophobic atmosphere, against a background of seediness, violence and distrust' Sunday Telegraph 'Kellerman moves her gritty mean streets LA plot along with breakneck pace' Irish Independent
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Faye Kellerman lives with her husband, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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- Series: Decker/Lazarus Novels
- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow (August 6, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062121758
- ISBN-13: 978-0062121752
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Epub The Beast: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
THE BEAST begins with Gabe Whitman, the piano prodigy, seventeen-year-old foster son of Rina and LA Lieutenant Peter Decker completing a day of testifying for the prosecution in a rape case. It quickly moves on to investigating complaints of neighbors about the smell from an apartment where the police discover a full grown lion and a dead man. The investigation reveals that the victim, an eighty-nine-year-old billionaire recluse named Hobart Penny, was very strange, was willing to pay for whatever he wanted, especially kinky sex, and had no friends. He also had some very unusual collections, part of which lead to other potential victims.
A subplot revolves around Gabe's relationship with fifteen-year-old Yasmine Nourmand.
LA Lieutenant Peter Decker and his partners, Marge and Oliver, are the central character in the latest of Faye Kellerman's Rina Lazarus/Peter Decker series. When the series began, Rina Lazarus was the main character and the main story line involved her and her life. She and Peter didn't know each other. Rina barely played a role in this book. She's described as a stereotypical patient, devoted housewife who took care of the house and family, maintained their social life, prayed, exercised, and taught at a Jewish High School. The cover calls it "A Decker/Lazarus Novel with Rina in second place."
Kellerman also brings in Dr. Alex Delaware, the main character of some of Faye's husband Jonathan's novels.
The end of the book suggests major changes for the family but seemed rushed.
THE BEAST talks around the opening case but it seems that it is a continuation of a previous book. The particulars are omitted and left me wanting more information.
I found it difficult to put this book down; every page intrigued me more and more. I really can't say whose books I enjoy more--Faye Kellerman's or her husband Jonathan Kellerman's. And there was a bit of a crossover in this book, as Dr. Delaware made two brief appearances in the form of phone conversations with Peter Decker.
The titular beast would appear to be a full-grown female Bengal tiger, which is found in the apartment of a man who has been murdered. He was a rich recluse a la Howard Hughes with two grown and very rich children and their stepmother, who divorced him a long time ago and still despised him after all these years? Why? As it turns out, she has very good reason.
As Peter, Marge, and Scott delve farther into the case, we begin to wonder which is really the beast--the tiger or the dead man.
The children, ex-wife, and a woman named Vignette are very colorful characters who stand out; Vignette is a unique woman who cares more for the exotic animals she tends to in her sanctuary that the dead man largely funded than she does for people. She operates on a bear's paw and later saves Decker's life. Is she a suspect? Yes. More suspects from the world of massage/kinky sex turn up.
There are two subplots. One revolves around the Romeo and Juliet couple from The Gun, brilliant 17-year-old concert pianist Gabe, the Deckers' foster son, and 16-year-old Persian Jewish Yasmine, whose fierce mother does everything but lock her up in a tower and does not want her to develop her gorgeous coloratura voice. Decker finds it necessary to consult Gabe's estranged father, a nasty gangster, who does come through with vital information.