In the dark, parked cars looked like giant tortoises, spindly tree boughs became hanging skeletons. At one in the morning, the eyes played tricks. Whatever he’d seen had probably been nothing significant. The guys in the division were always laying odds on what would bust first when the vehicles were returned from service-six-to-one on a leaky radiator, four-to-one on a choked carburetor, three-to-one on the broken air-conditioning system, the odds improving to two-to-one if it was summertime.ĭecker ran his fingers through thick ginger hair. Overworked and underpaid, they’d fix one problem, cause another. If he had a spare minute, he’d check it out himself, haul her onto the lifts and probe her belly. The Plymouth’s alignment was off again, this time pulling to the right. Decker began to cruise down the vacant street, hoping for a second look at what had attracted his attention. The brown unmarked screeched, bucked, then rebelliously reversed directions in the middle of the empty intersection. He yanked the wheel to the left and braked. The flutter of movement was so slight that had Decker not been a pro, he would have missed it. (I chortled again just thinking about it.) Read more There's another chortle-worthy development regarding Rina's family's attitude toward Pete. It's used only by bigots, disgusts the main characters, and leads to a situation worth a chortle.

I'm Catholic and I got the reference.)Warning: there's considerable use of the racist 'N' word in this book. He was reared Baptist, so I would have expected him to know.

(I was rather surprised by when the author wrote that Decker wouldn't have known that the Biblical Rachel was meant a year ago. Both Christian and Jewish characters are guilty. There's progress on the Decker-Lazarus front! Persons using or being used by another/others is a major theme. Kellerman worked the Biblical phrase about the land of milk and honey into the story. It's a powerful scene, as is the story Peter hears about his rabbi's escape from the Nazis during World War II.One of the toddler cases leads to a gruesome discovery. (If he is innocent, that is.)That last mystery leads to a revelation about something Peter did back then that he's never truly dealt with. The third is proving the innocence of Pete's old buddy from his Vietnam days.

Two of them are official for Pete Decker and partner Marge Dunn: locating the parents of a toddler Pete finds wandering in the wee hours of the morning and locating a kidnapped toddler. There are three mysteries to be solved in Milk and Honey.

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