![]() ![]() Kellerman's Decker/Lazarus novels are a terrific change of pace from my usual fiction reading. This is a stand-alone novel, and one can easily get to know the cast of characters and their history without having read the prior books. "Milk and Honey," the third in the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novels, proves to be as good a read as "Day of Atonement," my first venture into Faye Kellerman's excellent mystery/sleuth series. I might read the next one but wouldn't recommend this. ![]() She seems to have a thing about Rina being forbidden fruit, while still being the little woman at home.Īll in all, I didn't enjoy this, a dull story with some very bizarre sexual politics. I don't understand what Kellerman is getting at. There are endless descriptions of how alluring and desirable Rina is, especially with her dress code. ![]() Alongside, Kellerman goes to great lengths to show us that while Rina is a committed Orthodox Jew, she is sex personified. I found it distasteful that having already been the potential target of a rapist in the first book, yet again Rina is threatened with rape. Great emphasis on Decker, his religious conversion is interesting but there's far too much angst. Most wearing of all is the treatment of the regular characters. There's a very dull murder mystery, which plods on and on. Despite starting very strongly with the 'The Ritual Bath', three books in and Kellerman is struggling. ![]()
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