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New York: Avon, 2007
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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 nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery, Peter and Rina fear for the safety of their own precious child-especially when the missing nurse's car is found at the bottom of a cliff . . . with a corpse inside. A most grievous sin has been committed. In pursuit of justice, Decker-with the help of his tough-as-nails partner, Marge, and an able assist from his teenage daughter, Cindy-follows a twisted path that winds through a sinister maze of hospital politics, misplaced passions, and torturous mind games that can all too easily lead to murder.… (more)
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LibraryThing member -Eva-
After Peter and Rina's daughter is born, a baby is kidnapped from the hospital ward and Peter feels urged to take on the case and hunt down the nurse who may or may not be the culprit. Apart from Rina acting like a complete ditz (worrying how sexy she looks right after giving birth), this is a
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decent installment in the series. The maybe baddie is borderline psychopath, which makes them slightly less interesting, but the resolution of the mystery is surprising enough to keep the interest. I follow this series for its characters and they hold up well here, even if the Jewish element isn't as important in this book as it is in some of the others. Show Less
LibraryThing member AnnieMod
Rina gives birth to her daughter (and things do not go very well for her for a while but she survives it). And then a baby that had slept next to her daughter just disappears together with one of the nurses . And it's Decker's team that need to figure out what happened.
Old secrets get revealed,
This time the book cast was better and things were going much better overall - the book is an obvious improvement over the previous book and a return to the style that I like.
Old secrets get revealed,
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family tragedies need to be revisited -- and a baby life might be the price of that all.This time the book cast was better and things were going much better overall - the book is an obvious improvement over the previous book and a return to the style that I like.
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LibraryThing member JalenV
In Grievous Sin, Rina and Pete's baby is born, then two tragedies strike (neither to their baby).
A nurse and one of the other babies in the same hospital nursery as the newest Decker go missing. Cindy Decker, Pete's 19-year-old daughter by his first wife, is a witness. Did the nurse kidnap the baby
The parents of the missing girl are understandably upset, as are a grandmother and three uncles. At least the dad takes Pete's advice.
Rina wants Pete to find that missing baby girl as much as Pete does, which is good because he and partner Marge Dunn will be putting in plenty of hours on the case.
Some of the chapters belong to devoted bodybuilder Tandy Roberts. No, they are not irrelevant.
I was still a medical librarian when this book came out in 1993. I read plenty of articles about budget cuts and nursing shortages. Yes, that particular real-life problem plays a big role in this kidnapping. (Sure hope the fictional adminstrators responsible for that decision in this book got fired.) Nurses are VERY important to proper patient care. I've never been hospitalized, thank God, but if I were, I'd be wary if my hospital didn't have enough of them. Nurses can be just as specialized as doctors (or librarians). Floating [using] nurses from other specialities is not a real solution. Would you want your baby cared for by a nurse who wasn't trained in neonatology [the newborn]?
The answer to kidnapping and murder turn out to be more complicated than I expected. The interactions among members of Pete and Rina's family members were a nice bonus. Rina's parents appear in their best light yet. Even Pete's parents get a role. The kids are all pleased about their new half-sibling, although Cindy has the biggest role there.
Cindy also helps out with the case, both with and without Pete's permission. Marge predicts a 2nd generation Decker in law enforcement. Pete is not thrilled, but Cindy is a lot like her father.
I really enjoyed reading this entry. (My eyes didn't thank me for that, but it was a hard book to put down.)
Notes:
See chapter 5 for the source of Baby Decker's first and middle names.
See chapter 22 for information about Jewish law forbiding mixing milk and dairy products (it's more extensive than the footnote in my Bible).
See chapter 23 for an update about little Katie Darcy from book three, Milk and Honey.
The reason Pete Decker prefers to avoid Brooklyn can be found in book four, Day of Atonement.
Cat lovers, Pete takes home the missing nurse's gray tabby kitten.
Dog lovers, Pete's Irish setter, Ginger, does have a role.
A nurse and one of the other babies in the same hospital nursery as the newest Decker go missing. Cindy Decker, Pete's 19-year-old daughter by his first wife, is a witness. Did the nurse kidnap the baby
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or were they both kidnapped?The parents of the missing girl are understandably upset, as are a grandmother and three uncles. At least the dad takes Pete's advice.
Rina wants Pete to find that missing baby girl as much as Pete does, which is good because he and partner Marge Dunn will be putting in plenty of hours on the case.
Some of the chapters belong to devoted bodybuilder Tandy Roberts. No, they are not irrelevant.
I was still a medical librarian when this book came out in 1993. I read plenty of articles about budget cuts and nursing shortages. Yes, that particular real-life problem plays a big role in this kidnapping. (Sure hope the fictional adminstrators responsible for that decision in this book got fired.) Nurses are VERY important to proper patient care. I've never been hospitalized, thank God, but if I were, I'd be wary if my hospital didn't have enough of them. Nurses can be just as specialized as doctors (or librarians). Floating [using] nurses from other specialities is not a real solution. Would you want your baby cared for by a nurse who wasn't trained in neonatology [the newborn]?
The answer to kidnapping and murder turn out to be more complicated than I expected. The interactions among members of Pete and Rina's family members were a nice bonus. Rina's parents appear in their best light yet. Even Pete's parents get a role. The kids are all pleased about their new half-sibling, although Cindy has the biggest role there.
Cindy also helps out with the case, both with and without Pete's permission. Marge predicts a 2nd generation Decker in law enforcement. Pete is not thrilled, but Cindy is a lot like her father.
I really enjoyed reading this entry. (My eyes didn't thank me for that, but it was a hard book to put down.)
Notes:
See chapter 5 for the source of Baby Decker's first and middle names.
See chapter 22 for information about Jewish law forbiding mixing milk and dairy products (it's more extensive than the footnote in my Bible).
See chapter 23 for an update about little Katie Darcy from book three, Milk and Honey.
The reason Pete Decker prefers to avoid Brooklyn can be found in book four, Day of Atonement.
Cat lovers, Pete takes home the missing nurse's gray tabby kitten.
Dog lovers, Pete's Irish setter, Ginger, does have a role.
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LibraryThing member debs4jc
Another in the Peter Decker series by Faye Kellerman. In this installment Peter's wife Rina has just had a baby girl and Peter and his family - including his daughter Cindy - are all camped out at the hospital enjoying the new arrival. Except of course things can't all be going smoothly for our
This was a solid entry into the series, I couldn't put it down after I was a few chapters into it. I liked the mix between Peter's family dilemmas, Rina's soul searching conversations with her Rabbi, Cindy's need to get involved in the case and Peter's determination to protect everyone and bring the missing baby home.
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detective. Rina has complications after the birth that result in an emergency hysterectomy. This leads to some soul searching for the couple as Rina does not react well to this news. But there is also some weird stuff going on at the hospital, as Peter's daughter Cindy witnesses while spending a lot of time in the nursery. When a baby goes missing Peter is suddenly not only in new father mode but also in work mode as he wants to know what the ##@$ is going on at the hospital where his baby girl Hannah could have also been a victim. Peter, Cindy and Peter's fellow police officers all get involved in tracking down the kidnapper.This was a solid entry into the series, I couldn't put it down after I was a few chapters into it. I liked the mix between Peter's family dilemmas, Rina's soul searching conversations with her Rabbi, Cindy's need to get involved in the case and Peter's determination to protect everyone and bring the missing baby home.
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LibraryThing member lbswiener
Grievous Sin is a story that has a lot of coincidences and close calls. It is a disturbing book about the stealing of a newborn who just happened to be in the same viewing room as Peter Decker's newborn. Therefore, Peter had to solve the case himself. It was too close for comfort. Three stars were
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Original language
English
Original publication date
1993
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368 p.; 25 cm