"[Decker and Rina are] hands down, the most refreshing mystery couple around."

People

"This couple's domestic affairs have the haimish warmth of reality."

New York Times Book Review

"One of my current favorites…What fun to match wits with a clever, literate author…Kellerman is accomplished at setting up sordid crimes and then lulling her beguiled reader into assuming the answer is obvious. Not so."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Kellerman blends Family and murder beautifully."

Ocala Star Banner

"I have seen the future of crime fiction, and her name is Faye Kellerman."

Glasgow Herald (Scotland)

Other Books by Faye Kellerman

RITUAL BATH*

SACRED AND PROFANE*

THE QUALITY OF MERCY

MILK AND HONEY*

DAY OF ATONEMENT*

FALSE PROPHET*

GRIEVOUS SIN*

SANCTUARY*

JUSTICE*

PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD*

SERPENT’S TOOTH*

MOON MUSIC

JUPITER’S BONES*

STALKER*

THE FORGOTTEN*

*The Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novels

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

GRIEVOUS SIN. Copyright © 1993 by Faye Kellerman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition © JUNE 2007 ISBN: 9780061827822

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