| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780061227332 | | Publisher: William Morrow & Company | | Publish Date: 8/12/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 206196083 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 68426 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 6.25L x 1.25T | | Pages: 384 |
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| | | Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett "Dr. Ben" Alston Little, murdered execution-style and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz. No arrests were ever made, no killer charged for the brutal crime. Fifteen years later, the high-tech CEO reads about another execution-style murder; this time the victim is a Hollywood music producer named Primo Ekerling. There is no obvious connection, but the case is eerily similar to Little's and Genoa feels the time is right to close Dr. Ben's case once and for all—offering the L.A.P.D. a substantial financial "incentive" if justice is finally served for Little.
Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower to a fifteen-year-old open case simply because a rich woman says "Jump!" Still, the recent murder of Primo Ekerling does bear a disturbing resemblance to Little's case, even though two thug suspects are currently behind bars for the Ekerling murder. Decker can't help but wonder about a connection. His first phone calls are to the two primary investigators in the Little case, retired detectives Calvin Vitton and Arnie Lamar. Lamar is cooperative, but Vitton is not only reluctant to talk, he winds up dead of a suspicious suicide twelve hours later. Plunging into this long-buried murder, Decker discovers that even though the two slayings are separated by a decade and a half, there is still plenty of greed, lust, and evil to connect the dots.
Decker's team of top investigators not only includes his favorite homicide detectives, Scott Oliver and Marge Dunn, but also his newly minted Hollywood detective daughter, Cindy Kutiel, whose help proves to be invaluable. His wife, Rina Lazarus, continues to be his backbone of support, offering a cool, rational outlook despite her growing concern for her husband's welfare and safety. Rina's worries and fears begin to build at a fevered pitch as past and present collide with a vengeance, catapulting an unsuspecting Peter Decker closer and closer to the edge of an infinite dark abyss.
A relentlessly gripping tale spun by a master, Faye Kellerman's The Mercedes Coffin races through a dangerous urban world of fleeting fame and false dreams, making heart-pumping hairpin turns at each step of a terrifying journey, where truth and justice are fine lines between life and death.
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The prolific Faye Kellerman continues her Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus murder mystery series with MERCEDES COFFIN. In the 17th installment, a wealthy woman named Genoa Greeves has detective Decker chasing down answers for a 15-year-old murder case. Greeves is determined to find out who killed her old professor all those years ago, and after dangling a hefty sum of money before the LAPD she convinces the force to reopen the case and make it a priority. Decker isn't pleased with the turn of events, but begins his investigation, and soon discovers that the case is linked to another, more recent killing. As always, Decker's wife Rina is by his side, offering her support.
| Author Bio| Faye Kellerman | | Faye Kellerman attended UCLA where she met her husband and married him in 1972. After graduating two years later with a degree in mathematics, she earned a D.D.S. in 1978 and became a practicing dentist. Her first novel, "The Ritual Bath", appeared in 1985, the same year her husband's first novel was published. Kellerman went on to write a series of mysteries featuring the two detectives she introduced in her debut, Peter Decker, a Jewish LAPD cop who was raised Baptist by his adoptive parents, and Rina Lazarus, an Orthodox widow. Kellerman's mysteries delve into the close-knit Orthodox Jewish community, often focusing on a violent act committed within an otherwise serene and religious setting. |
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