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Cindy Decker (later known as Cindy Decker Kutiel) is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by Faye Kellerman. [1] She is the daughter of the protagonist, Peter Decker, a Los Angeles police lieutenant, by his first marriage. While Cindy and her mother Jan are portrayed as Jewish, they are not as religiously observant as Peter's second wife Rina Lazarus.
Cindy is a teenager in the earliest books, but takes on a more active role in solving crimes in later novels and eventually follows her father into the police force.
In Grievous Sin, Cindy helps care for her infant half-sister Hannah Decker, after her stepmother has a difficult childbirth, and helps investigate the disappearance of another infant from the hospital ward where Hannah is being cared for. In Stalker, she is a highly motivated, university-educated police rookie who comes into an explosive conflict with very corrupt fellow police officers. In Street Dreams, Cindy investigates the case of an abandoned infant, and dates and eventually marries a male nurse and Ethiopian-Israeli Jew, Yaakov ("Koby") Kutiel.
SS-GB is an alternative history novel by Len Deighton, set in a United Kingdom conquered and occupied by Germany during the Second World War. The novel's title refers to the branch of the Nazi SS that controls Britain. It was first published in 1978.
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Rose Madder is a horror/fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1995. It deals with the effects of domestic violence and, unusually for a King novel, relies for its fantastic element on Greek mythology. In his memoir, On Writing, King states that Rose Madder and Insomnia are "stiff, trying-too-hard novels."
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Rina Lazarus is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by Faye Kellerman.
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