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The Burnt House: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (Decker/Lazarus Novels, 16) Hardcover – August 7, 2007

by Faye Kellerman (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,407 ratings
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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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  1. Book 16 of 27
    Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus
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    448 pages
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    English
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    William Morrow
  5. Publication date
    August 7, 2007
  6. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0061227323
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0061227325
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A coincidence so improbable that a character comments on it renders bestseller Kellerman's 16th novel to feature Lt. Peter Decker of the LAPD and wife Rina Lazarus (after 2003's Street Dreams) one of the series' lesser entries. After a commuter airplane crashes into an apartment building shortly after takeoff from Burbank Airport, Decker and his team investigate what many fear was a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, the parents of Roseanne Dresden, a flight attendant, suspect that their daughter was murdered by her stockbroker husband, Ivan, who claims his wife joined the doomed flight at the last minute. Roseanne was considering divorce, and Ivan stood to lose financially. As the probes into the crash and into Roseanne's fate converge, readers will find it a challenge to suspend disbelief. Fans of the extended Decker-Lazarus clan will enjoy catching up with old friends, but those looking for a plausible police procedural may be disappointed. (Aug.)
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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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow (August 7, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061227323
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061227325
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
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Faye Kellerman is the author of twenty-six novels, including nineteen New York Times bestselling mysteries that feature the husband-and-wife team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. She has also penned two best selling short novels with her husband, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, and recently has teamed up with her daughter, Aliza, to co-write a teen novel, entitled PRISM. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A really good read!
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2010
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I really enjoyed Kellerman's 'The Burnt House'. It satisfied my immediate need for a mixture of fantasy and thrills. With Kellerman (Faye), I don't go looking for solid reality, because I am in a mood for escape from reality and enjoy entering her world of suspense. When I actually get time to sit down and read (Kids, grandkids, Job), Kellerman grabs my attention with ease and transports me quickly into Rina and Peter's adventures.
When I am lying in bed reading her on my Kindle, I thoroughly enjoy that judgmental (bitchy) part of myself that critically assesses the twists and turns of her plots ("How likely is THAT to happen?") and then immediately am swept back into the read. This book is NOT 'Silence of the Lambs' (thank God and PTSD therapy). It is a pleasant, interesting, and exciting read and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The return of Peter and Rina
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2008
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Although I'm sure I'm incorrect in most of the details, I sometimes picture the writing careers of Jonathan and Faye Kellerman as being sort of like A Star is Born. Jonathan was the first to be an established writer, and soon, Faye would follow. For a while, he was the star, but now--despite his continued bestselling numbers--his quality has faded considerably, and Faye is now clearly the better of the two. Within the past month or so, I've read one book from each of them. Jonathan Kellerman's Compulsion was another dud, and Faye Kellerman's The Burnt House is another good work.

The title residence is actually an apartment building in which a commuter plan has crashed into shortly after its takeoff from Burbank heading towards San Jose. The accident has occurred very close to the Granada Hills home of Peter and Rina Decker, and even closer to the school of their daughter Hannah. Fortunately, all are fine, but Peter, a police lieutenant who oversees homicide investigations, finds that there is still much to be done after the fires have been put out.

In particular, Roseanne Dresden, though listed as one of the crash victims, is alleged by her step-father to have never been on the flight. She has disappeared, however, and the step-father suspects her philandering husband. Decker and his detectives try to determine if she was on the flight, but the airline refuses to disclose any information and there are no remains found at the crash site that belong to her.

A body is found, but it is not Rosanne; instead, it is a much older corpse apparently stashed in the apartment building decades ago and exposed after the crash. This leads to a second mystery, in trying to determine who the victim is and who killed her. Sadly, the resolution of this second plot will hinge on an incredible coincidence that Kellerman doesn't really even try to justify.

This coincidence hurts The Burnt House, but not irreparably; overall, this remains a good book. Why does Faye Kellerman continue to succeed while her husband slides downhill? As much as anything, it has to do with characters: Faye has created a world with a bunch of well-defined characters who have grown over time (in fact, my one continued gripe with the series is that is marketed as a Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery, when Rina has not used that last name in over a decade of fictional or real time). It's been a little while since Kellerman has written a book in the series, but for her fans, it is worth that wait.
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5.0 out of 5 stars All her books are consistently fun to read
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2020
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Easy reading. Good murder mystery. Not quite as “literary” as Louise Penny, but step by step solving of murders by characters you’d like to get to know cuz they just seem like such nice people.
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5.0 out of 5 stars burnt house
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2012
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This was a great book to read! I love the Decker/Lazarus series, have read almost every one of them, but this was one of the best. Decker is portrayed as a normal person with a family who he tries to balance with a demanding and exhausting job, and he also has to deal with two sets of parents who want to know what happened to their daughter. Through all of the chaos, he still remembers to be compassionate, even though each new clue and piece of evidence take him new places. Thia book is a must-read!
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patricia K. Beehler
5.0 out of 5 stars A favorite author
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Faye Kellerman is one of my favorite authors. She holds my attention so well with her writing that it's hard to put the book down. I frequently read far in to the night when I get a new novel she's written. 5 stars every time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars GOOD BUT NOT MY FAVORITE
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2018
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Faye Kellerman's writing was just as good as ever but the story was a bit far fetched with a plane crash, two missing women, two murders that may or may not be linked, Peter Decker and his team flying from L.A. to San Jose to New Mexico and it all worked out in the end. This was definitely a story driven novel and the description of the police work and every step of the investigation was completely fascinating - at least to me. I would certainly recommend it to fans of the Decker/Lazarus series but would suggest that new readers begin with book one in order to get a real feel for the characters as they are not featured prominently in this particular book.

I finished the book early this morning and have already bought the next book in the series for my Kindle.
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Kiwibarb
3.0 out of 5 stars Started out well, finished poorly
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2010
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The Burnt House started out really well and kept my attention. A little way into it though the poor editing started to annoy me. For example, saying 'if he would have told me' instead of 'if he had told me'and similar strange tense usage; changing the spelling of Cathy to Cathie and back again; referring to a character as a father-in-law instead of step-father, etc. I did enjoy the book overall, but the ending came across as if the author was told to finish it quickly and just rushed through the last couple of chapters to a disappointing finish.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Burnt House
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What can I say? All of these Decker-Lazrus books are fantastic. On number 19 now and hate for them to end. I feel like I am part of their family. Also, so much Jewish history - even tho I am not Jewish have/had a lot of friends who were/are and so interesting to find out about all those things I used to hear them talk about but did not have a clue what they were such as Shabbos (sp).
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cinzia leone
5.0 out of 5 stars A thrilling thriller
Reviewed in Italy on August 16, 2018
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Another thrilling narration with many surprises! Amazing as always!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Safe
Reviewed in Australia on July 3, 2017
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Some times it was a bit confusing but after a while the story made great sense highly recommended will read more from this writer
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good volume in the series
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2015
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Well written interesting thriller about two murders "discovered" in the wreckage of an airplane that crashed on a house near the airport from which it took off. Very long and complex with an interesting description of the way replicas of damaged remains can be made using state of the art computer technology.
Not too much of the background Yiddish families so altogether an excellent read. I recommend it to New readers and fans of the series.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Must read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2017
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One hell of a great book you need not miss this one
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giuseppe
3.0 out of 5 stars Abbastanza piatto e noioso
Reviewed in Italy on March 7, 2017
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Sicuramente non è il miglior giallo della Kellerman, una storia che non tiene non appassiona, eccessiva la descrizione dei vestiti e dell'aspetto di ogni personaggio, quasi assente la suspance con un finale che cerca di mettere tutti d'accordo senza in realtà chiarire nulla. Tre stelle per il mestiere della Kellerman che questa volta sembra aver fatto un compitino più che aver pensato ad un giallo al suo livello
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