The Forgotten is a crime thriller in Faye Kellerman’s Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series, beginning with the desecration of the Deckers’ synagogue and moving into a darker investigation shaped by antisemitic violence, family fear and buried historical guilt. When seventeen-year-old Ernesto Golding is arrested, the case seems to have an answer, but Peter Decker remains uneasy about what has been left unresolved. Months later, Ernesto’s death forces Decker and Rina back into a world of damaged teenagers, powerful parents and secrets rooted in the aftermath of the Third Reich. The novel combines police investigation with questions of memory, inherited trauma and moral responsibility, as the search for truth becomes entangled with what families choose to conceal.
Author: Faye Kellerman Publisher: Headline Feature Year published: 2001 Number of pages: 416