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The Hunt: A Decker/Lazarus Novel, Book 12 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Faye Kellerman (Author), Mitchell Greenberg (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 3,814 ratings
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Detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus return to Los Angeles when a kidnapping hits close to home—in this breathtaking new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.

Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in the very woods where a man previously went missing in upstate New York.

But that’s not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with.

Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter and his wife Rina’s foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles with her two children in tow, hoping to avoid a court injunction amid a messy divorce. But LA is no escape from her problems—she is found by ruthless men and beaten mercilessly. When she wakes, barely conscious, Teresa discovers that both of her children are gone and frantically calls Gabe for help.

With his mother on the verge of death, Gabe contacts Peter and Rina, as well as his biological father, the notorious Christopher Donatti, a former hit man from a known criminal family who’s now a millionaire in Nevada. By bringing Donatti into the fray, Gabe, Peter, and Rina know they have made a deal with the devil—but they may not be able to recover the kids without him.

As these unlikely allies rally to find the kidnappers before things end tragically, they race headlong toward an explosive confrontation from which no one will emerge unscathed...

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  1. Listening Length
    17 hours and 12 minutes
  2. Author
    Faye Kellerman
  3. Narrator
    Mitchell Greenberg
  4. Audible release date
    August 23, 2022
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    HarperAudio
  7. ASIN
    B09NRTTQY6
  8. Version
    Unabridged
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    Audiobook
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Listening Length 17 hours and 12 minutes
Author Faye Kellerman
Narrator Mitchell Greenberg
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Audible.com Release Date August 23, 2022
Publisher HarperAudio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B09NRTTQY6
Best Sellers Rank #64,332 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#1,484 in Police Procedural Mysteries
#1,672 in Crime Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals)
#4,737 in Suspense (Audible Books & Originals)

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avl
5.0 out of 5 stars Grieving over the end of this series
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2022
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I love this book. I hate this book. Because I vacillate between love and hate, with a mixture of anger in between, perhaps this is a sign of a really good book by Faye Kellerman?

This book has two different plots. Homicide Detective Peter has put in for retirement from the Greenbury PD in New York. He’s trying to solve one last case with his partner, Tyler before Peter and his wife Rina move to Israel. And yes, Peter manages to find the two people responsible for homicide. Good ending.

The second storyline is about Chris Donatti (a former mob hitman who founded a brothel campus in Nevada) and Terry McLaughlin. Chris and Terry the biological parents of Gabe who was partly raised by Peter and Rina. Gabe calls his Dad because his Mom was in trouble. Terry fled India, away from her 2nd husband and returned to the US with her daughter and son. Her 2nd husband has outstanding gambling debts and the people he owed money to kidnapped Terry’s five year old son. Chris comes to the rescue and is finally reunited with Terry, his one and only love from their high school years. Their relationship is really toxic and the author includes really graphic violent sexual scenes that are disturbing. Somehow, they seem to have come to an understanding. Just when I’m starting to feel hopeful about these two and sympathizing with a psychopath…boom! All hope is gone. Despair takes over and literally and figuratively, the story ends in a suicide.

This is a horrible ending for the very last Peter Decker series. Maybe that’s why it’s such a good book. But I’m going to rewrite my own ending in my head because after 27 books on Peter Decker and his family, investing time and money reading and getting to know these characters, I need a happy ending.
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Bonnie
5.0 out of 5 stars great!
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2024
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Love Decker and Rina! This book was not typical but complex and full of weird characters. You will enjoy it. Sad but heartwarming. I hope you read it!
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Marcia Kay
4.0 out of 5 stars Profoundly Sad
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024
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I anticipated feeling somewhat sad because this excellent long term series had come to an end. What I didn't expect was the utterly depressing storyline of Chris and Terry that became oddly dominant. I felt a need for more closure re all of the other wonderful characters. This was a tough read for me and perhaps others. I say goodbye to Rina and Peter with regret...not only because the story ended, but how it ended.
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Renee
5.0 out of 5 stars Heartbreaking
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2022
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Chris and Terry were so much a part of this series, and so much a favorite of mine, that it broke my heart to read the ending. So much so that I went back and re-read the previous books that followed their relationship (Justice, Stone Kiss, and Hangman). The ending makes sense, still I wish Faye Kellerman had handled it differently. To view it from the perspective of the two main characters in the series (Rina and Peter), I think they represented the conflicting opinions of Chris as well as the differences in two love affairs. Rina far more sympathetic to Chris and Peter much more judgmental. Psychopath? Never known one to love as much as Chris loved Terry. Thank you Faye for a beautiful series. Sorry to see it end but understand your need to move on. Hope Jonathan Kellerman doesn't follow suit! The Alex Delaware series is another of my favorites.
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SJS
3.0 out of 5 stars Too Much Sexual Violence
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022
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This book was uninspiring. There was too much sexual violence between Chris and Terry, which seemed to glorify his abuse. The murder plot was not up to Faye Kellerman's usual high standards. In fact, I was bored with it and skimmed over several parts of the story.
Where she could have highlighted the good relationships from the previous books, Tyler/Decker and the
combined Decker/ Gabe family, the author spent most of the time showcasing Terry/Chris which I felt brought the book down. It was depressing. One other thing bothered me: I thought Jasmine, Gabe's fiancee was studying opera. How did she end up in medical school? Was I confused?
Other readers didn't like the ending. Actually, I thought that it was the best part of the book. I'm sorry that
Terry had to die so brutally and that Chris OD'd, but the ending felt inspired by a Shakespeare tragedy. This long term duo finally got to rest in peace.
Lastly, I'm glad Decker and Rina retired in Jerusalem, a fitting finale for them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected ending
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2023
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It took me a bit to get into this story and I realized I should have read the earlier books in the series first. I'm not a fan of the ending. At all.
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Russell J. Sanders
1.0 out of 5 stars Hated it
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2023
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I feel betrayed. I have loved Faye Kellerman’s Peter and Rina Decker mysteries and read them all prior to Kellerman’s Decker final novel The Hunt. I even bought The Hunt and let it sit on a shelf, knowing it was the last, and I needed to wait until I could truly savor it. Finally, I decided it was time to say goodbye to Peter and Rina. That goodbye, I hoped, would be a celebration of their lives, but instead most of the novel features the most vile of Kellerman’s villains, Chris Donatti. I’m not talking Peter and Rina being actively involved with Donatti’s storyline (although they are in the very last pages,) but Donatti is the main character in most of this book, as he works to repair the relationship with his divorced wife Terry. This story takes up at least two-thirds of the novel, with Peter filling up the rest while solving a crime with characters that we met in the previous novel. Rina barely appears in The Hunt, and she had become, over all the novels, my favorite character. So, instead of a Peter and Rina Decker novel, we are left with a Chris Donatti book with guest appearances by the Deckers. Donatti is vile and disgusting and repugnant. There is absolutely no reason for Terry to be in love with him, as he treats her like garbage. Yes, Kellerman tries her best to show us Donatti’s motivations and how he fights his negative tendencies, but I could not buy that this horrible man could rehabilitate himself. So I trudged through, hoping that in the end, all would be well. And then, I despised the ending. I guess I was hoping for a blockbuster case that Peter and Rina could solve as their swan song before Peter retired, and they moved to Israel. What I got was as fairly pat, not very well-developed case thrown in as an afterthought while Kellerman told a story of a former hit man, his nasty ways, and his obsession with his former wife.
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M. Shore
5.0 out of 5 stars Never a dull moment!
Reviewed in Canada on January 23, 2023
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If you read Faye Kellerman novels you already have a relationship with the Decker/Lazarus/Donatti families. Lots of issues in this book…love, intrigue, crime, family, etc. Hard to put this book down!🧡
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conor s smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2023
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Happy
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lorelai 44
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn’t stop reading
Reviewed in Germany on August 28, 2022
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I‘ve read all of the Decker-Lazarus books and I thought this one had many unexpected turns, I read it in one weekend, couldn’t stop reading. Was a bit sad about the ending, but obviously not every book can have a happy end.
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Gloria Turnbull
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read. Sequel to Lost boysFreat Read
Reviewed in Australia on April 5, 2023
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Great read. Keeps you on your toes.
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Ton Van Haeren
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in Canada on March 25, 2023
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Thank you!!
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