Stalker

I disliked "The Stalker" as an abridged audiobook. The writing is awkward, clumsy, and cliché-written, and the dialogue is crass to the point of disgusting. (Maybe some people talk this way -- with constant, unimaginative references to body functions, flatulent releases and excrement-laden epithets -- but I don't choose to listen to such writing for entertainment). This work features a rookie police officer, Cindy Decker, daughter of a cop who is the subject of several of the author’s previous novels. The plot focuses on a series of car-jackings, some being perpetrated by a thief who targets women carrying babies. In the other car-jackings, women who knew a sleazy real- estate developer named Clayton (now supposedly dead) are having show more their cars stolen. The plot included a confusing jumble of disconnected issues – dishonest cops, hazing of female cops, real estate scams, and father- daughter conflicts. Frankly, I cared not a whit for a single character and lost track of the plot by halfway though the audio work. As for the characters, I found them entirely uninteresting. They are always described in terms of visceral reactions that can only have been written by someone with a rudimentary understanding of physiology. "She felt a squirt of adrenaline"; "she felt her heart"; "his heart was beating like a bass drum" and so on. This is my first experience with Kellerman, and one I'm not inclined to repeat. There's far better crime fiction out there. show less

If you are just starting to read Faye Kellerman read a different book. Some of her earlier books are much better than this.
Cindy, daughter of Lt. Peter Decker is all grown up and a police woman herself. She is not very well liked by her fellow officers because she seems to flaunt the fact her daddy is Lt. Peter Decker. What a brat! She keeps finding things that seem to be moved in her apartment. Meanwhile, her father and people under his command are investigating a series of carjackings trying to find a common thread.

Stalker is a thriller story. It is not necessarily believable. There are just too many coincidences. Not until the last few chapters does the book get good with the police investigation. The characters are all believable. Only three 1/2 stars were awarded to this book because of the unbelievable circumstances.

Maybe not her best novel but still loaded with suspense and insight. The depiction of macho bent cops is scary. Make sure you have enough time to read the last hundred pages at one sitting - you won't be able to put it down.

It started a little slow but it ended up being action packed.
On a scale of 1-10- 1 being bad, 10 being awesome , i give this one a 7. Onto Justice!

This is the twelfth in the Decker series. Great series IMHO.

Back Cover Blurb:
It began with a policewoman's sixth sense. Someone is watching her. Then, after the break-in and the midnight car pursuit, she knows. Someone wants to frighten her. Someone wants to hurt her.
But why?
As an inexperienced policewoman, daughter of one of the force's veterans, admitting what's happening feels like a confession of weakness. There seems no option for Cindy Decker but to go it alone, keeping her colleagues and family in the dark. And in a world in which someone is trying to kill you, alone is a very frightening place....

"Faye Kellermans Romane sind eine gekonnte Mischung aus hartgesottenem Realismus, Romantik und feiner menschenfreundlicher Ironie." Regula Venske, Die Zeit