Faye Kellerman Books in Order

A body in the Greenbury woods links back to an old missing‑person case just as Gabe’s biological mother flees to Los Angeles with her children and is viciously attacked. When the kids are kidnapped, Decker, Rina, Gabe, and dangerous hit man Christopher Donatti form an uneasy alliance to get them back.

This brief profile piece traces how Kellerman created Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, answering reader questions about their origins, how they’ve changed over the series, and how her own life and marriage have shaped the couple’s fictional partnership.

During a field trip, cognitively disabled Bertram Lanz vanishes from a diner near Greenbury, sparking a massive search. As Decker and McAdams investigate Bertram’s relationships and a missing nurse from his care home, searchers uncover human remains tied to three campers who disappeared years earlier.

In Greenbury, Decker investigates the bludgeoning of twenty‑six‑year‑old Brady Neil, a quiet electronics clerk with a notorious family name. When one of Brady’s friends disappears and blood is found at his home, the trail leads back to a decades‑old jewelry‑store murder and police secrets long buried.

On a morning hike in the woods near campus, Rina Decker steps on a human skull. The discovery leads Decker and McAdams to a missing student, then to more bodies buried nearby. Their hunt for a long‑active killer snakes through the Five Colleges, old scandals, and carefully guarded academic reputations.

Set in a near future where people text instead of talking, this short story follows a world struck by a virus that leaves everyone blind. As doctors scramble for answers, the tale asks what speech and human connection mean when neither is taken for granted.

Years after his beloved sister Ellen was abducted and murdered, New Mexico teen Ben Vicksburg is still poring over case files. His analytical mind—and the help of new friend Ro Majors—reveals patterns linking Ellen’s death to other unsolved killings, drawing a cunning predator’s attention to them both.

The apparent suicide of a gifted math student near an elite college draws Decker and McAdams into the closed world of high‑level theoretical mathematics. As they probe professors, rival prodigies, and old accidents, a second death suggests that academic rivalries may hide something far darker.

Semi‑retired to the college town of Greenbury, New York, Decker is bored until a cemetery break‑in reveals that priceless Tiffany glass panels have been swapped for forgeries. When a local art student is murdered, he and brash young partner Tyler McAdams uncover a web of art theft and international crime.

Reclusive millionaire Hobart Penny is found murdered in his apartment, his exotic pets—including a Siberian tiger—left roaming. As Decker’s team digs into Penny’s twisted private life and business dealings, Gabe’s fraught romance from Gun Games reaches a dangerous crossroads.

Now living with Decker and Rina, fifteen‑year‑old piano prodigy Gabe Whitman falls in love with Yasmine, a sheltered Persian Jewish girl. Meanwhile, two apparent teen suicides at an elite prep school draw Decker into a privileged clique whose obsession with guns and dominance turns deadly.

Old friend and doctor Terry McLaughlin asks Decker to mediate with her abusive husband, then vanishes. As Decker worries over Terry’s gifted teenage son Gabe, an unidentified woman is found hanged at a construction site, forcing him to confront the possibility that the two cases are one tragedy.

After a van accident on a school trip, teenager Kaida Hutchenson seems to wake safely at home—until she realizes she’s slipped into an alternate America where modern medicine is outlawed. With two classmates, she must navigate a tightly controlled society and find a way back to her own world.

A massacre at the sprawling estate of shopping‑mall magnate Guy Kaffey leaves the mogul, his wife, and their guards dead. As Decker untangles family feuds, business rivalries, and gang connections, Rina’s chance jury‑duty encounter with key witnesses puts her dangerously close to the killers.

Fifteen years after a beloved teacher was found executed in the trunk of his Mercedes, a second victim dies the same way. A tech billionaire offers a fortune to reopen the cold case, pushing Decker and his team into old police files, Hollywood backrooms, and secrets people would kill to keep buried.

When a commuter plane crashes into an apartment building in Los Angeles, Decker must determine whether it was an accident or something worse. Extra, unidentified bodies in the wreckage and a missing flight attendant turn a public disaster into a deeply personal, decades‑spanning mystery.

This collection gathers crime stories and essays, including new Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus cases, an early Cindy Decker tale, collaborations with Kellerman’s children, and personal pieces drawn from her own life. It’s a compact tour of her themes, from greed to small, hard‑won miracles.

Husband‑and‑wife team Jonathan and Faye Kellerman deliver two more short novels: a Berkeley investigation into the assassination of a controversial state representative, and a Nashville case involving a murdered music star and the detectives tied to his past.

In 1920s Munich, a city simmering with postwar resentment and rising extremism, young inspector Axel Berg investigates a series of brutal murders of women. As political violence grows, he must decide whom to trust in a landscape where fanaticism and ordinary crime are hard to untangle.

This volume pairs two brisk novellas: one set in Santa Fe, where detectives Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz probe the killing of a loathed art dealer, and one in Boston, where cops investigate the puzzling death of a college basketball star.

On patrol in Hollywood, Cindy Decker rescues a newborn left in a dumpster and becomes obsessed with finding the baby’s mother. Her search leads through group homes, street gangs, and a home for the developmentally disabled—and into a risky romance with the Ethiopian Jewish nurse caring for the child.

A panicked call from Peter’s half‑brother, a rabbi in upstate New York, pulls Decker and Rina east to help after a relative is murdered and a teenage niece vanishes. Navigating insular Hasidic enclaves and seedy city streets, Decker uncovers abuse, hypocrisy, and a girl running for her life.

After Rina’s storefront synagogue is defaced with swastikas and Holocaust photos, Decker arrests a troubled, wealthy teen. When the boy and his therapist are later found murdered at a survivalist camp, the case forces Decker to confront buried histories, toxic parenting, and dangerous therapy.

Newly minted LAPD officer Cindy Decker is determined to prove herself, juggling a rash of carjackings and a slippery real‑estate swindler. When someone begins breaking into her apartment and sabotaging her car, Cindy realizes she has become prey—and her stalker may be wearing a badge.

When famed astrophysicist turned cult leader Emil Ganz—now known as Father Jupiter—is found dead in his compound, Decker must determine whether it’s suicide or murder. Probing the apocalyptic sect’s inner circle forces him to confront fanaticism, power, and danger much closer to home.

In Las Vegas, homicide sergeant Romulus Poe investigates the mutilation murder of a showgirl whose body echoes a long‑unsolved desert killing. As more victims appear, rumors of sinister experiments, monsters in the wasteland, and past nuclear tests blur the line between science and nightmare.

A former employee storms a fashionable Los Angeles restaurant and opens fire, leaving thirteen dead and dozens wounded. When ballistics suggest a second shooter, Decker follows a trail from country clubs to charity galas, risking his career as powerful players move to shut him down.

Brilliant heart surgeon and outspoken religious crusader Azor Sparks is found savagely slain behind a restaurant. As Decker digs into Sparks’s double life—biker weekends, experimental drugs, a fractured family—he uncovers painful connections to Rina and ethical lines no one wants exposed.

After a high‑school student is found raped and murdered after prom, suspicion falls on her charismatic boyfriend, the privileged son of an East Coast mobster. Decker secures a confession, but nagging doubts—and the girl’s best friend—force him to question what real justice requires.

The murders of an Israeli diamond dealer and his wife in their Los Angeles home send Decker from the city’s jewelry district to New York and Israel. Following missing sons and dirty money, he and Rina navigate both family drama and international intrigue tied to the diamond trade.

As Rina recovers from a difficult childbirth, a newborn vanishes from the hospital nursery and a young nurse disappears. Decker, his partner Marge, and teenage daughter Cindy race to untangle obsessive longings and professional grudges before tragedy becomes permanent.

When the glamorous owner of an exclusive health spa claims she was beaten and raped, Decker must separate truth from performance. Stolen jewels, a missing memoir, and a web of toxic Hollywood relationships turn a simple assault report into a deeply manipulative mystery.

On what should be a peaceful honeymoon visit to Rina’s family in Brooklyn, Decker is pulled into the frantic search for a teenage boy who has vanished from his strict Orthodox home. The hunt stretches across the country and exposes festering secrets in both families.

Driving home late one night, Peter Decker finds a toddler in blood‑soaked pajamas wandering alone. Searching for the child’s family pulls him into a tangle of missing persons, custody battles, and violence that reaches from quiet suburbs to the heart of his own religious community.

In Elizabethan England, physician’s daughter Rebecca Lopez lives as a secret Jew while serving the royal court. Disguised as a man, she aids a clandestine rescue network and crosses paths with an ambitious young actor, Will Shakespeare, as both pursue a brutal murderer.

Taking Rina Lazarus’s young sons on a camping trip, Peter Decker’s retreat ends when one boy stumbles onto two burned skeletons. The investigation drags Decker from family life and religious study back into Los Angeles’s darker corners and forces him to re‑examine his future with Rina.

At a secluded yeshiva outside Los Angeles, a woman is raped near the ritual bath, drawing LAPD detective Peter Decker into an insular Orthodox community. As he hunts a predator and juggles another rape case, Decker’s bond with teacher Rina Lazarus complicates everything.