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At in the morning a small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills California Shock waves ripple through Los Angeles as LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime to calm rampant fears of a -type terror attack But a grisly mystery lives inside the planes charred and twisted wreckage the unidentified bodies of four extra travelers And there is no sign of an airline employee who was supposedly on the catastrophic flightDecker and his wife Rina have personal reasons for being profoundly shaken by the tragedy since the accident occurred frighteningly close to their daughter Hannahs school Luckily their child and her schoolmates escaped unscathed But the fate of the unaccounted-for flight attendanttwenty-eight-year-old Roseanne Dresdenremains a question mark more than a month after the horrific event when the young womans irate stepfather calls insisting that she was never onboard the doomed plane Instead he claims she was most likely murdered by her abusive unfaithful husband But why then was Roseannes name included on the passenger listUnder intense pressure from the department to come up with answers Decker launches an investigation that carries him down a path of tragic history dangerous secrets and deadly liesand leads him to the corpse of a three-decades-missing murder victim And as the jagged pieces slowly fall into place a frightening picture begins to form a mind-searing portrait of unimaginable evil that will challenge Deckers and Rinas own beliefs about guilt and innocence and justice Combining relentless suspense with intense multilayered human drama The Burnt House is Faye Kellerman at her mesmerizing best.
About the Author
Faye Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. She earned a BA in mathematics and a doctorate in dentistry at UCLA. , and conducted research in oral biology. Kellerman's groundbreaking first novel, THE RITUAL BATH, was published in 1986 to wide critical and commercial acclaim. The winner of the Macavity Award for the Best First Novel from the Mystery Readers of American, THE RITUAL BATH introduced readers to Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, termed by People Magazine "Hands down, the most refreshing mystery couple around. " The New York Times enthused, "This couple's domestic affairs have the haimish warmth of reality, unlike the formulaic lives of so many other genre detectives. "There are well over twenty million copies of Faye Kellerman's novels in print internationally. The Decker/Lazarus thrillers include SACRED AND PROFANE; MILK AND HONEY; DAY OF ATONEMENT; FALSE PROPHET; GRIEVOUS SIN; SANCTUARY; as well as her New York Times Bestsellers, JUSTICE, PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD - listed by the LA Times as one of the best crime novel of 2001; SERPENT'S TOOTH; JUPITER'S BONES, THE FORGOTTEN, STONE KISS, STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS, THE BURNT HOUSE, THE MERCEDES COFFIN and BLINDMAN'S BLUFF. . The novels, STALKER and STREET DREAMS, introduced Kellerman's newest protagonist, Police Officer Cindy Decker. In addition to her crime series, Kellerman is also the author of New York Time's bestseller MOON MUSIC, a suspense horror novel set in Las Vegas featuring Detective Romulus Poe, as well as an historical novel of intrigue set in Elizabethan England, THE QUALITY OF MERCY. She has also co-authored the New York Times Bestseller DOUBLE HOMICIDE, with her husband and partner in crime, Jonathan Kellerman. She has also written a young adult novel, PRISM, with her daughter, Aliza KellermanFaye Kellerman's highly praised short stories and reviews have been anthologized in numerous collections including two volumes of the notable SISTERS IN CRIME SERIES, Sara Paretsky's, A WOMAN'S EYE; THE FIRST ANNUAL YEAR'S FINEST CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES; THE THIRD ANNUAL BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR; WOMEN OF MYSTERY AND DEADLY ALLIES 11. Her personally annotated collection of her award winning stories, THE GARDEN OF EDEN and OTHER CRIMINAL DELIGHTS, was published in August of 2006. HHer other hobbies include gardening, sewing and jogging if her back doesn't give out. She is the proud mother of four children, and her eldest son, Jesse, has just published his fourth novel, THE EXECUTOR, from Putnam. She lives in Los Angeles and Santa Fe with her husband, , their youngest child, and their French Bulldog, Hugo.
