Quotes from Faye Kellerman

You'd rather protect your own, even if he's a criminal, than trust an outsider who happens to be a cop and, more important, a human being who's very concerned about your welfare." "Peter, it's not that.

Yitzchak was bad enough, but how could He abandon Moshe so cruelly? But her ire was quickly quelled by the immediate guilt that followed whenever she doubted her faith.

They required roughhousing that was just too physically demanding for her. They needed a constant male figure. The boys at the yeshiva were nice, but didn't provide consistency. She had tried a Jewish Big Brother once, but it hadn't worked out. It was nearly impossible to get someone who had an understanding of her religious views.

statements line by line. If everything

depressions in the ground." "I'll mark

Kids are like heroin -- an injection of pain when they're around, but even when they're not around it's like that next fix. You just can't stop thinking about it.

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

That is a fart without wind....." in reference to when you can't back up what you say. very funny.

You've got a good side?" "I do. I just don't use it too often. My bad side's so much more fun.

When it's silent, your brain fills in the music," Decker told him. "After all these years, I think I've finally learned how to listen.

Life was a blank page written in invisible ink, a tale all told, just waiting to be deciphered.

A cake can be very life-affirming.

I know about fraternal and sororal serial killers. Yes, FYI, sororal is the proper adjective. Anyway, I looked up family serial killers. There have been a few in history—the Benders of Kansas in the late 1800s, the Sawney Bean clan on which the movie The Hills Have Eyes is based.

ingest a lot of illicit chemicals. The murder smacks of drug-frenzied adolescence. The dismembered arm and leg, the slit throat. Spaced-out teenage boys who love gore and have low impulse control.

I write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in them. It's very hard to figure out in advance how a story will unfold, but after having written so many novels, I feel more comfortable letting the ideas come up from somewhere in my own subconscious. Writing is much easier now because that sense of panic I used to experience doesn't set in as I begin a new book.

My series characters are like family to me. They actually talk to me, telling me what to write and what not to write. And when they talk, I always listen

She's more like a New Ager. Do you know what that is?" "It's a person who worships chandeliers." Decker smiled. "Crystals, Rabbi. Not chandeliers." "There's a difference?" Schulman waved his hands in the air. "It's all avodah zorah—idol worship.

about two miles east of where the infant had been discarded. It was a Medicaid hospital, meaning that most of the patients were poor. Despite its location, it had a world-renowned reputation. When my baby sister, Hannah, needed some minor surgery, Rina insisted that she be taken to Mid-City instead of one of the bigger, more moneyed behemoth hospitals on the affluent west side of town.

Shabbat dishwasher that has been an absolute

when it happened, but now it appeared that she'd been even younger. The faded writing would be almost indecipherable even if it had been in English. It was going to take more than her knowledge of Yiddish to make out the text. The envelope had arrived in

THE DESCENT SEEMED faster than the ascent: standard in travel as well as in life.

showcase magnificent eyes: big and round and pale whiskey in color, set under arched black eyebrows and topped with an awning of long, dark lashes.

The paramedics told me the story." He checked the clock, then signed a clipboard attached

solo last night. A busboy flagged down my cruiser when he heard the crying," I said. "I was thinking about doing a door-to-door search for her mother