L.A.P.D. Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, are profoundly shaken by this terrible "accident" that has occurred frighteningly close to their daughter's school. And an irate call from the unaccounted-for flight attendant's stepfather further tangles an already twisted mystery. The man insists twenty-eight-year-old Roseanne Dresden was never ...more
Heather Wells Rocks! Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfect...more
Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College—a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend's upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decad...more
Peter and Rina are delighted with their newborn baby girl, but the scene at the Los Angeles hospital is a nightmare. Budget cutbacks and staff shortages so compromise security in the nursery that Peter, the ever-anxious cop, worries about his family's safety.Then a baby is kidnapped and a respected nurse vanishes along with her. Peter, his tough-ta...more
Two short novels by a couple who've each gone it alone very successfully in their previous literary efforts make for a double treat for fans of both authors--Faye, whose mysteries feature a similarly uxorious couple in Rina and Peter Decker, and Jonathan, whose Alex Delaware novels starring a thoughtful child psychologist who's luckier in crime-bus...more
From one of the finest sisters in crime ("Los Angeles Times") and a "New York Times" bestselling author comes a remarkable anthology of her best short writing, including two new Decker/Lazarus crime-fiction stories.
Acclaimed linguist Dr. Robert Blair offers a one-of-a-kind, proven effective systematic learning process that takes advantage of recent innovations to teach Italian to English-speaking listeners and English to Spanish-speaking listeners faster than ever before. Most language-learning methods have not changed much in the past 50 years, offering the ...more
Family business can be deadly, as Peter Decker discovers in Kellerman'slatest thriller starring the L.A. police lieutenant and his wife, Rina Lazarus.Decker's half-brother Jonathan, a New York rabbi, asks for help when his wife'sbrother Ephraim Leiber is slain execution-style in a seedy New York hotel room,and the victim's teenage niece Shayndie, w...more