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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  Sivani | Nov 23, 2009 |  Below average thriller. As I approached the end of the book, I simply did not care whodunit. Our hero's family life plays too much of a role in the novel, without adding anything. His wife is too perfect. The younger daughter is billed as being withdrawn from the family, but every scene she is in puts the lie to that characterization. (  ) DTimD | Aug 25, 2009 | This is not one of the best one of the Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker series. In fact it might one of my least favorite. Not because its not good, but its was a mostly average read whereas much of the series has been fantastic. In this installment, Peter takes on a cold case that has been dug up due to a recent murder. His daughter, Cindy, shows up some to help, but Rina wasn't in the story much (and she was sadly missed). Most of it seems to be a pretty standard mystery, but at least the ending was exciting and yet believeable unlike many mysteries. It was okay, but I wished I could have liked it more. (  ) classicaljunkie | Aug 24, 2009 | Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series As the seventeenth Faye Kellerman book in the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series, The Mercedes Coffin was a complex book that addressed the current exercise of solving of cold cases. As someone that is very interested in the Jewish faith, I was a little disappointed that we did not see more of Rina in this book. The story line has Peter investigating a 15 year old file of the murder of Dr. Ben Little, a school VIP. His department was asked to look into the case because of a request received from a very wealthy woman who promises great things as a reward. When a second victim is also found in the truck of his Mercedes, there appears to be a tie-in to the previous unsolved murder. Faye Kellerman’s books always have twists and turns and solving this mystery is very complicated and takes thinking outside the box. You must pay attention to what every person says who is questioned. The clues are there hidden in their statements. As a fan of Faye Kellerman’s Decker and Lazarus series, I look forward to her next book. (  ) memasmb | Jul 23, 2009 | I enjoyed this a lot. As always, it was a well-plotted mystery with interesting characters. I'm way behind on Rina-and- Peter books, though, and just kept getting distracted by things like "When did their baby grow up?" "When did Cindy become a cop?" "Who's that guy she's married to?" ( ) DaleQ | Jan 14, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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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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With the Merceded Coffin, Kellerman has branched out, dipping her toes in waters even further removed from the run of the mill mysteries out there (and evidently leading reviewers into mixed metaphors)! Has she bitten off more than she can chew? Perhaps, but hopefully this is just the first bite, and she will keep trying until she gets it right. There is real promise for change in this book, giving hope for the future although it is not fully realized in this work. (