Let's play Hangman...

As I've said before, of all of the Kellerman authors, it is Faye I love the most. Her novels aren't any shorter than her husbands, but they don't ramble on and on like his do. I don't think I'd like an abridged Faye like I enjoy an abridged Jonathan. At this point in my reading life, I don't think I'd even TRY an unabridged Jonathan, to be honest. But Faye seems to choose her words more carefully. Or at the very least, even if not all of her words NEED to be there, they are all interesting and don't bog down the story. Hangman is number nineteen in the Decker/Lazarus series of detective fiction. Peter, an LAPD lieutenant, turns sixty and has a missing persons case and and a possible serial killer on his hands. There's a nice amount of family material here but not as much as in some of the other books in the series. Not that I mind when there's a lot of it. Like I said, it is always interesting hearing about Peter and Rina and their family's traditional Jewish home. Great supporting characters, great bad guys and enough gruesome violence to keep anyone who loves police procedurals happy! It was fun to read especially now that I've been to L.A.