Sacred and Profane, Faye Kellerman
Sacred and Profane, Faye Kellerman
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Sacred and Profane

Author: Faye Kellerman

Narrator: Mitchell Greenberg

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/22/2008


Synopsis

Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. A nice reprieve from the grueling work of a homicide cop-until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight...Two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition, are identified by a forensic dentist as teenage girls--and for Decker, the father of a sixteen-year-old daughter, vacation time is over. Throwing himself professionally and emotionally into the murder case, he launches a very personal investigation: a quest that pulls him deep into the crack dens of Hollywood Boulevard and painfully close to the children of the streets and a nightmare world he must make his own.

About Faye Kellerman

Mystery author, Faye Kellerman, not only writes amazing, best-selling mysteries, but is married to famous author, Jonathan Kellerman. The pair of authors is the only married couple to have been on The New York Times best seller list at the same time. An awesome accomplishment for sure. And, to make it even better, their oldest child, Jesse Kellerman is a best-selling novelist and award winning playwright. Their youngest, a daughter, Aliza Kellerman, co-wrote Prism, a novel for young adults, with her mother. Keeping it in the family.

Faye Kellerman's early history is a very interesting one. She actually received a B.A. in mathematics, and then earned her Doctorate of Dental Surgery. Even though she fully intended to be a dentist, she never practiced even one day in the dental profession. She first became a housewife and mother, then developed her writing career.

Faye Kellerman has well over twenty million copies of her novels in circulation. The Decker/Lazarus thrillers are among her most successful works. They include such titles as: Sacred and Profane; Milk and Honey; Day of Atonement; Justice; Prayers for the Dead, and many others. She has also received awards for her collection of short stories. As if all that writing and creating were not enough, she also has hobbies of gardening, sewing, and jogging. She has four children, and lives in Los Angeles and Santa Fe.

Upon being asked how an educated Dentist becomes an accomplished, award winning author, she said it was... a desire for justice, a suspicious nature, an overactive imagination, and of course, a penchant for the bizarre.


Reviews

So, after liking the first 2 of these I read (the first I read was one farther along in the series) I've continued to follow our hero(es) through "life". And they have an eventful life. The detective is in love with our heroine. Our heroine however is a devout and actually believing and practicing Jew......more

Goodreads review by Felix

As a police procedural, this one was better than the first book in the series and more exciting (though rather violent and harrowing). One thing that bugs me is that sometimes Ms. Kellerman takes an odd shortcut with the plot (e.g. a mysterious criminal holds important clues; nobody knows much about......more

Goodreads review by Gary

You can’t fake your beliefs. Pascal’s challenge is nonsense because our beliefs must be real to us in order to be our beliefs. One either believes something because they have evidence derived from facts which give identities with coherence and consistency or one does not. I can’t fake my belief. Fai......more