- Mass Market Paperback: 375 pages
- Publisher: Fawcett; 1st Ballantine Books Ed edition (Mar 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0449147282
- ISBN-13: 978-0449147283
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.4 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,639,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Faye Kellerman's best novel to date: deeper, richer, more emotionally complex."
James Ellroy
With his Orthodox Jewish girlfriend, Rina Lazarus, thousands of miles away in New York wrestling with his marriage proposal, it is a lonelier morning than usual when LAPD detective Pete Decker catches something strange in his headlights. What he discovers is a two-year-old child covered with blood, but otherwise unharmed. Decker is trying to return her to her family, and by the time Rina returns home, he's obsessed with the case. Then he stumbles onto a grisly quadruple murder scene and learns what can happen when passion turns into a fatal blood feud....
"Easily puts her into a class with the most literate, facile and engaging writers in the business."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
James Ellroy
With his Orthodox Jewish girlfriend, Rina Lazarus, thousands of miles away in New York wrestling with his marriage proposal, it is a lonelier morning than usual when LAPD detective Pete Decker catches something strange in his headlights. What he discovers is a two-year-old child covered with blood, but otherwise unharmed. Decker is trying to return her to her family, and by the time Rina returns home, he's obsessed with the case. Then he stumbles onto a grisly quadruple murder scene and learns what can happen when passion turns into a fatal blood feud....
"Easily puts her into a class with the most literate, facile and engaging writers in the business."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
About the Author
Faye Kellerman has four children and lives with them and her husband, Jonathan Kellerman, in Los Angeles.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was the first Faye Kellerman book that i have read and have already rushed out and bought 3 more. She writes with the easiest of style and devolpes wonderful characters in Decker and his fiancee Rina.
The case he investigates in this book about multiple murders on a honey farm does not dominate the book but adds an fascinating backdrop to getting to know Decker and his relationship with Rina. Kellerman also gets the relationship between Decker and his partner Marge just right.
Decker is an amicable detective who has converted to the Orthodox Jewish religion and how he handles this coupled with modern day detective work in L.A makes for perfect reading !!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Milk and Honey," the third in the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novels, proves to be as good a read as "Day of Atonement," my first venture into Faye Kellerman's excellent mystery/sleuth series. This is a stand-alone novel, and one can easily get to know the cast of characters and their history without having read the prior books. Ms. Kellerman's Decker/Lazarus novels are a terrific change of pace from my usual fiction reading. Although these have their share of violence, gruesomeness and unsavory individuals, the ethnic/cultural aspect of the stories and the sheer humanity of the characters are refreshing.
Peter Decker, a detective with the Los Angeles police, is still courting Rina Lazarus, an Orthodoz Jewish widow and the mother of two small sons. Raised a Baptist, Peter is studying with Rabbi Aaron Schulman to become a Jew, but at times has doubts about the course he has chosen. He and Rina are very much in love. Apart from her beauty, outside and in, Decker is drawn to her total lack of guile. Rina, who in no way wants to pressure him, needs to find out how committed her finance is to their relationship and to becoming an observant religious man. She has taken her boys back east, to visit with her ex in-laws in Brooklyn.
Late one night, thinking of Rina thousands of miles away, Peter is unable to sleep and takes a drive into the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. He finds an adorable toddler wandering around by herself in the early morning hours. After checking with people in the near-by housing complex, he determines the child to be lost or abandoned. When he gets her into the light, Decker discovers she is wearing blood-soaked pajamas and is covered in bee stings. He is concerned that something has happened to the little girl's parent(s) or guardian, since the blood does not seem to be her own. He feels for the bewildered child and is determined to find her family. His partner, Marge Dunn, places their small charge in foster care while they look for the relatives. Their search is relatively short, but what they find will lead them into a long and horrific investigation concerning a family feud turned violent, an overabundance of passion and death. No spoilers here!!
Meanwhile, Abel Atwater. an old buddy from his Vietnam War days appears in need of help. Atwater lost a leg and some of his sanity in the war. Now it appears he has been charged with the rape and mutilation of a prostitute. He swears he is innocent. Peter has some doubts.
The author deftly handles the workings of various intense personal relationships and solving multiple crimes with apparent ease. As with the other Kellerman book I read, her characters are her strength. They are truly three-dimensional and their dialogue is extremely realistic - at times just plain funny, at others quite moving. Her mysteries are solid. No loose threads are left behind. I plan on reading more of this excellent author's work and highly recommend it to others.
JANA
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Kellerman yet again creates an exciting novel about jealousy and betrayal and highlights the complications of family and love.
Detective Decker is once again on the case, a young child is found wandering the streets alone at night as he traces her parents a series of dark secrets are unravelled and a multiple homicide is discovered.
A satisfying read which is difficult to put down, and the narrative fills you with suspense from cover to cover.
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Milk and Honey
Despite starting very strongly with the 'The Ritual Bath', three books in and Kellerman is struggling. There's a very dull murder mystery, which plods on and on. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2009 by Rich
An average story line with a hard to follow mix of characters.
This is my first Kellerman book and will probably be my last.
It wasnt amazingly bad but it certainly wasnt anything special either. Read more
It wasnt amazingly bad but it certainly wasnt anything special either. Read more
Published on 4 May 2008 by molko
Another Kellerman?! Great read & many more to go!!
I had not read any Faye Kellerman books before this one and typically I chose in haste to read one 'out of published order'. Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2002
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