Grievous Sin – The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, Peter Decker, with joy.The beautiful, eccentric spa owner and daughter of a faded Hollywood legend, Lilah was beaten, robbed, and raped in her own home-and claims to have psychic powers that enable her to see even more devastating events looming on the horizon.

False Prophet – Peter Decker doesn’t know quite what to make of Lilah Brecht.But a boy has vanished from the midst of this close-knit religious community, a troubled youth fleeing the tight bonds and strictures he felt were strangling him. Day of Atonement – Peter Decker never dreamed he’d be spending his honeymoon with his new wife, Rina Lazarus, in an Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn, New York-or that a terrible event would end it so abruptly.It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps forward to claim the little girl. Milk and Honey – In the silent pre-dawn city hours, Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered with blood that is not her own.A nice reprieve from the grueling work of a homicide cop-until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight… Sacred and Profane – Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina’s young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys.The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. The Ritual Bath – Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report.The Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series in Order:Įvery book in the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series works as a standalone story, but the lives of the different characters evolve from one novel to the other. A lieutenant in the LAPD, Decker met Rina Lazarus, a young widow, during an investigation.Īfter that, they started a family and grew old together from one book to another and, of course, they keep solving crimes.Īt one point, Decker’s daughter from his first marriage, Cindy, also became a cop and even get to be the star of two books in the series. Nick and Nora Charles are not the only crime-fighting couple out there… Who are Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus?įictional characters created by Faye Kellerman, Peter Decker and his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus solve crimes together, in their own way. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.

Das Proletariat by Peter Decker