Who is Crime Novelist Faye Kellerman

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Love Crime Novels? You Will Really Love Faye Kellerman.

Besides being a mother of four, including Jesse Kellerman, the playwright, she is also the wife of another incredible author, Jonathan Kellerman. What a talented family!


Faye Kellerman began her career as a dentist but turned to writing after the birth of her eldest child in 1978. As well as the highly popular Peter Decker series she has also written one historical mystery. In between writing, she tries to find the time to enjoy her two favorite hobbies, gardening and music.


Faye and Jonathan Kellerman recently combined their talents to write CAPITAL CRIMES, a pair of novellas in which their respective signature protagonists, Alex Delaware and Peter Decker, make an appearance.


Faye Kellerman's first novel, The Ritual Bath (1986), introduced the series featuring Sergeant Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. It also won the 1987 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery. Since then her novels have totalled fourteen, all mysteries with the exception of Quality of Mercy.


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Faye Kellerman at a Glance 

Faye Kellerman (born 1952 in St. Louis) is an American author of mystery novels, in particular the "Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus" series, as well as three non-series books, The Quality of Mercy, Moon Music and Straight into Darkness.

She attended UCLA where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theoretical Mathematics in 1974. Four years later she received her Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree. At that time she "fully intended to pursue a career as a dentist". Despite her intention, she has never practiced dentistry and was a full-time mother before publishing her first novel. In a 1997 essay she says she can't pinpoint the metamorphosis from oral hygienist to writer of detective fiction, but several factors that steered her toward mystery writing were: "a desire for justice, a suspicious nature, an overactive imagination, and, or course, a penchant for the bizarre."Kellerman, Faye, essay in Small Miracles: Extraordinary Coincidences from Everyday Life, Adams Media Corporation, 1997, ISBN 1-55850-646-2.

Kellerman is a practicing Orthodox Jew, as is her husband, the novelist Jonathan Kellerman. Her writing frequently deals with Jewish themes and characters, incorporating them into the framework of the traditional mystery. The Peter Decker books, for example, center on a police detective raised as a Southern Baptist who returns to his Jewish roots after falling in love with Rina Lazarus, an Orthodox Jew, while investigating a rape that took place near a yeshiva.

The Kellermans are the only married couple ever to appear on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously (for two different books). They have four children and live in Los Angeles, California. She is also the mother of novelist and playwright, Jesse Kellerman.

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#1 Book Recommendation: The Burnt House
A plane crashes in unexplained circumstances and the mystery deepens when police investigate. The owners know nothing of the four bodies found in the wreckage. So who are these unidentified passengers?...

But the biggest question of all comes from a husband frantic with worry. His wife was supposed to be on the plane - but never boarded it. Why then is she still missing?

It's a riddle detective Peter Decker will have to answer quickly if he is to prevent further lives being lost in a case full of the trademark Kellerman twists and shocks.

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Praise for Faye Kellerman:

'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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#2 Book Recommendation: The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights
"From New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman ,"one of the finest sisters" in crime" (Los Angeles Times), comes an extraordinary anthology of her best short writing, including two never-before-published Decker/Lazarus crime-fiction stories. Here the backdrop of contemporary California becomes fertile ground for Kellerman's riveting tales of murder, mystery, and family ties most sinister and deadly...

Among the first-rate short mysteries in this collection, the brand-new " Garden of Eden" and "Open House" feature the famous sleuthing duo Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. " Bull's-Eye " introduced Cindy Decker to the crime-fiction world, and " Mr. Barton's Head Case " appears here for the very first time in English.

Compiled at last in one volume, the ten pieces in this audiobook feature new introductions by the author and contribute to a unique, compelling portrait of one of America's top masters of suspense. A must-have collection for all mystery fans, The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights showcases how ordinary everyday experiences can be the genesis of extraordinary tales that unveil the darkest sins and secrets of the human heart.

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#3 Book Recommendation: Street Dreams
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "one of our finest sisters in crime" Faye Kellerman brings back Cindy Decker, star of the New York Times bestseller Stalker.

While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared for by a professional - in this case a male nurse with intense eyes and lots of charm.

Now the hunt is on for the mother, more than likely a scared and desperate girl in need of medical attention. Armed with advice from her overworked father, Detective Peter Decker, Cindy searches through the mean streets of her inner-city Hollywood district, following a trail filled with helpless people and violent gangs who prey on the innocent.

With each new lead, the twisted journey gets darker, battering Cindy's complex relationships and endangering her very life. When Decker and Decker join forces, can this edgy duo put personal issues aside to catch a vicious culprit before he strikes again.

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#4 Book Recommendation: Straight Into Darkness
With ten consecutive New York Times bestsellers, Faye Kellerman is truly a "master of mystery" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Now she turns her acute eye on 1920s Munich, a war-wounded city rocked by political agitation and stalked by a nameless, barbaric butcher.

Lustmord - the joy of murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the brutal slaying of a beautiful young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden. Homicide inspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime...and disturbed by the artful arrangement of the victim's clothes and hair-a madman's portrait of death.

Berg's superiors demand quick answers and a quick arrest: a vagrant, the woman's husband, anyone who can be demonized will do. When a second body is discovered, the city erupts into panic, the unrest fomented by the wild-eyed, hate-mongering Austrian Adolf Hitler and his Brownshirt party of young thugs.

Berg can trust no one as he relentlessly hunts a ruthless killer, dodging faceless enemies and back-alley intrigue, struggling to bring a fiend to justice before the country - and his life - veer straight into darkness.

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