Grievous Sin

by Faye Kellerman

Book Overview

The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688105548
• ISBN13: 9780688105549
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great book!

This continues on the series by Faye Kellerman with Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. They never disappoint!

Grevious Sin

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It certainly lives up to Faye Kellerman's excellent reputation.

Decker pursues kidnapper

Peter and Rina Decker are thrilled at the birth of their daughter, despite the fact that Rina suffers complications and goes through a dangerous period after the birth. Their joy turns to concern when a little baby who is born at the same time, disappears from the nursery. Peter takes this case personally because he knows that it could have been his little daughter Hannah who was kidnapped. One of the nurses is a chief suspect and when a dead body is discovered in a burned car, police feel that it might be the nurse. Homey, domestic scenes of the Deckers and their new baby are interspersed with the cold reality of Peter's pursuit of a kidnapper and murderer. He and his partner discover bits of truth along the way, but the final secrets are hidden up to the very end.

Enjoyable reading

I just finished this book, and enjoyed it as much as I have the earlier Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus books. Kellerman's characters are more substantial than those of many other mystery writers, and I enjoy watching them and their relationships grow over the series. I strongly disagree with the earlier reviewer who felt that the author was unfair to religious Christians. Only one character in the book fit this description, and by and large she was a sympathetic character - a good nurse, mentor and daughter. I particularly liked the interwoven relationships of the various characters, and I have to admit that the mystery itself kept me guessing to the end. I'm looking forward to reading more of Kellerman's books.

Grievous Sin deserves better reviews

I thought this was a pretty good novel, despite all who protest that Grievous Sin was too slow and talky. I was interested in following the mystery of the enigmatic nurse, the missing baby, and the unidentified victim of a grisly murder. There were a few problems: I did not find the nursery nurses' behaviour believable--they were too negligent to be for real, one hopes--and Decker seemed to operate on zero sleep, which continues throughout the series to amaze me. I also didn't care for Cindy's character. As in Stalker, she just annoys me with her self destructive nosiness. But despite it all, I couldn't put Grievous Sin down, much like Decker never seems to be able to go to sleep.