The Mercedes Coffin (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series #17) » (Bargain)

Love is serious business in Faye Kellerman's murder mysteries, starring sleuthing couple Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker. Kellerman spices her hardboiled crime stories with issues involving modern Judaism (Rina is Orthodox), putting a unique spin on the mystery genre in both this series and two separate but similarly successful novels, Moon Music and The Quality of Mercy.

A cold case turns red hot, threatening to consume detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus in the spellbinding new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.

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. Fifteen years later, the high-tech CEO reads about another execution-style murder. The case is eerily similar and Genoa offers the L.A.P.D. a substantial financial "incentive" if justice is finally served.

Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower to a fifteen-year-old open case. Still, the recent murder does bear a disturbing resemblance to Dr. Ben's case and Decker can't help but wonder about a connection. Decker's team of investigators includes his newly minted Hollywood detective daughter, Cindy Kutiel, while wife Rina Lazarus...

The Washington Post - Richard Lipez

The Dutch have a good word, gezellig (pronounced geh-ZELL-ig, with a phlegmy "g" on either end), that means cozy, familiar, congenial, memorable. That's Kellerman…You don't go to Kellerman for originality in style or plotting; in fact, this book reminded me of my Aunt Rae's tasty beef brisket. Aunt Rae confessed to me with a laugh in her 98th year that she prepared her popular brisket with packaged onion soup, and that in no way lessened the pleasure.