The Lost Boys
A Decker/Lazarus Novel
Decker/Lazarus Novels: Book #26
- By: Faye Kellerman
- Narrated by: Mitch Greenberg
- Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Description
Faye Kellerman returns with an atmospheric, face-paced mystery set in bucolic upstate New York, full of unexpected twists and turns that build to a shocking and surprising end—the latest thrilling entry in her New York Times bestseller Decker/Lazarus series.
When Bertram Telemann, a developmentally disabled man, goes missing from a local diner near Greenbury, the entire community of the small upstate New York town volunteers to search the surrounding woods in hopes of finding him. High functioning and independent, Bertram had been on a field trip with the staff and fellow residents of the Loving Care Home when he vanished.
When no trace of the man is found, the disappearance quickly becomes an official missing persons case and is assigned to detectives Peter Decker and his partner Tyler McAdams. As their investigation deepens, the seasoned Decker becomes convinced that Bertram hadn’t lost his way, but had left with someone he knew. Soon Decker discovers that Elsie Schulung, a recently fired nurse who had worked at the home, seemed to be especially interested in Bertram. But answers proves elusive when Elsie disappears and human blood is found in her kitchen.
But the complications are only beginning. While combing the woods, searchers discover the remains of one of three young men who had vanished during a camping trip. And for Decker, personal problems are adding pressure as well. After a ten-year absence, the biological mother of Decker’s and Rina’s foster son, Gabriel, has suddenly appeared in New York, children in tow, wreaking emotional havoc on the young man.
Juggling the personal and professional, a hot case and a cold case, Decker and McAdams race to find answers, sifting through cabinets of old files, a plethora of clues and evidence, and discouraging dead ends. As on-going searches for Bertram and the campers’ missing remains continue, the frustrated detectives begin to wonder if the woods will ever give up its dark secrets . . . and if these intertwining cases will be solved.
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Decker/Lazarus Novels Series

The Ritual Bath
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
The crime was called in by Rina... Read more »
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Sacred and Profane
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. A nice reprieve from the grueling work of a homicide cop-until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight...
Two human skeletons, charred beyond... Read more »
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Milk and Honey
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In the silent pre-dawn city hours -- alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New York -- LAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered in blood that is not hers. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps... Read more »
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Day of Atonement
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Peter Decker of the L.A.P.D. never dreamed he'd be spending his honeymoon with his new wife, Rina Lazarus, in an Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn, New York—or that a terrible event would end it so abruptly. But a boy has vanished from the midst of this close-knit religious community, a troubled youth fleeing the tight bonds and strictures he... Read more »
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False Prophet
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
LAPD Detective Peter Decker doesn’t know quite what to make of Lilah Brecht. The beautiful, eccentric spa owner and daughter of a faded Hollywood legend, Lilah was beaten, robbed, and raped in her own home—and claims to have psychic powers that enable her to see even more devastating events looming on the horizon. With his heart and mind on his... Read more »
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Grievous Sin
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff shortages. And when a respected... Read more »
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Sanctuary
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Las Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. Investigating detective Decker is stumped--faced with a perplexing case riddled with dead ends. Then a second dealer is found murdered in Manhatten, catapulting Decker and his... Read more »
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Justice
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exoticsubculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold "killer eyes" cannot soothe Decker's inner torment. For he knows in his gut this crime goes... Read more »
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Prayers for The Dead
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The brutal murder of Dr. Azor Sparks in an alley behind a restaurant is greeted with public outrage and a demand for swift, sure justice. But the investigation into the well-known surgeon’s death is raising too many questions and providing too few answers for homicide detective Lieutenant Peter Decker.
Why, for example, would the family of a man... Read more »
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Serpent's Tooth
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A man walks into a trendy Los Angeles restaurant -- a disgruntled ex-employee with an automatic weapon -- and seconds later, thirteen people are dead and thirty-two more have been wounded. It is a heinous act of mass slaughter that haunts Homicide Detective Peter Decker.
But, though eyewitnesses saw only the lone gunman -- who apparently took his... Read more »
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Jupiter's Bones
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Once Dr. Emil Euler Ganz was a preeminent astrophysicist with a worldrenowned reputation. But then he vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues. Fifteen years later, he reappeared as "Father Jupiter," the founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult, The Order of the Rings. And now he's dead--a vial of sleeping pills and... Read more »
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Stalker
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 13 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
L.A. Homicide Detective Peter Decker never wanted the perils of his job to touch his family. But now his two worlds have collided.
A first year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, Cynthia Decker became a cop against her father, Peter Decker's, wishes. But police work is in her blood, and she's determined to make it on her own -- even now,... Read more »
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The Forgotten
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Peter Decker, are shocked by an outrage that cuts close to the spiritual heart of their family. Rina's small storefront synagogue has been desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti and grisly Nazi death camp photographs. The alleged perpetrator is seventeen-year-old Ernesto Golding, a "rich kid"... Read more »
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The Burnt House
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman spins a gripping tale of a modern-day nightmare that ensnares L.A. Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus in a web of secrets and murder.
A small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building and L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime... Read more »
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The Burnt House - Abridged
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman spins a gripping tale of a modern-day nightmare that ensnares L.A. Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus in a web of secrets and murder.
A small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building and L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime... Read more »
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The Mercedes Coffin
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Blindman's Bluff
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“A well-tangled web of intrigue and murder.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Kellerman invariably rides high in the bestseller lists…Blindman’s Bluff shows why.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
One of the popular couples in contemporary crime fiction, LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back in Blindman’s Bluff—and placed in harm’s... Read more »
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Hangman
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“No one working in the crime genre is better.”
—Baltimore Sun
L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back on a case in Hangman—an electrifying new novel of suspense from Faye Kellerman, New York Times bestselling author of Blindman’s Bluff, The Mercedes Coffin, The Burnt House, and many other masterful thrillers. A... Read more »
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Gun Games
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
“[Kellerman] does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“No one working in the crime genre is better.”
—Baltimore Sun
In Gun Games, the sensational Faye Kellerman once again showcases Peter Decker of the LAPD and Rina Lazarus, arguably the most popular husband... Read more »
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The Beast
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout his years with the LAPD, Peter Decker has handled a number of tough cases and strange killers. But few of his previous assignments compare to his latest case. When Hobart Penny is found dead in his apartment, the cops think that his pet cat—an adult female tiger—attacked the reclusive elderly billionaire. But it soon becomes clear... Read more »
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Murder 101
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus embark on a new life in upstate New York—and find themselves entangled in deception, intrigue, and murder in an elite, picturesque college town.
As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now he and his... Read more »
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The Lost Boys
By: Faye Kellerman
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Faye Kellerman returns with an atmospheric, face-paced mystery set in bucolic upstate New York, full of unexpected twists and turns that build to a shocking and surprising end—the latest thrilling entry in her New York Times bestseller Decker/Lazarus series.
When Bertram Telemann, a developmentally disabled man, goes missing from a local diner... Read more »
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Bone Box
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman’s bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome, decades old, unsolved murders, pointing to a diabolical, serial killer who’s been hiding in plain sight.
On a... Read more »
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