The Hunt by Faye Kellerman

This book is two plots that merge near the end of the book.   I’m not familiar with the characters from any previous books so I don’t know if there is a backstory to tell but it appears there may be.   Chris Donatti runs a legal bordello.  His ex-wife comes to him for help escaping her current husband.   Peter Decker is a detective who retired from LAPD and currently working in the small town of Greenbury.  He has an unsolved murder that he wants to solve before he retires to Israel.

Chris Donatti is a high-functioning psychopath.  He is a semi-recovered addict and runs his lucrative but tiny empire with a tight fist.   Terry, his ex-wife is a medical doctor who can’t see that she is the classic abuse victim apologizing for her behavior that “forced” her abuser’s behavior.   Neither character is likable.  

Decker and Rina, his wife, are likable, affable, generous family-focused people.    Their side of the dual plots is less fraught with profaneness and depravity. 

The story comes together and solutions are found. 

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