When celebrated heart surgeon Dr. Azor Sparks is brutally murdered, the suspects include the doctor's six children, a jealous colleague, and a gang of biker buddies, and it is up to Lieutenant Peter Decker to sort out the truth.

As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now, he and his devoted wife Rena Lazarus are ready to enjoy the quiet beauty of upstate New York, where they can be closer to their four adult children and their foster son. But working for the Greenbury Police department isn't as fulfilling as Decker hoped. While Rina has adapted beautifully to their new surroundings, Decker is underwhelmed...

"A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Los Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. investigating detective Peter Decker is stumped - faced with a perplexing case riddled with dead ends. Then a second dealer is found murdered in Manhattan, catapulting Decker and his wife, Rina, into a twisted maze of murder and intrigue that spans the globe ... only to touch down...

"The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture; the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth." -- Back cover.

"It has been almost a year since Greenbury's last murder. Peter Decker, a former lieutenant for LAPD, has enjoyed the slow pace of his new job with the sleepy upstate police department. All that changes when an unidentified, nude male body is found deep within the local woods. It appears to be a suicide--single shot to the head, gun by his side--but until the coroner makes the final determination, Decker must treat the scene as a suspicious crime....

Detective Peter Decker of Los Angeles police investigates a series of murders within a religious cult. An attempt to storm the cult's compound has to be abandoned when the cult leader threatens to blow it up, along with scores of children.

Following the crash of a commuter plane into an apartment building, Los Angeles Police Lt. Peter Decker tried to calm the people of the community, although he had many unanswered questions. Was it terrorism or mechanical failure? Months afterward, he still had no answers. With all the bodies recovered except Roseanne Dresden, the flight attendant, Roseanne's parents insisted foul play was involved. The investigation leads Decker and Rina down dangerous...

The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff stortages. And when a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery, Peter and Rina fear for the safety of their own precious...

Detective team Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, in Brooklyn for the Jewish High Holy Days after their marriage, find themselves on the trail of an Orthodox teenaged runaway kidnapped by a psychopath.

DETECTIVE PETER DECKER AND HIS WIFE, RINA LAZARUS, RISK LIFE AND LIMB TO SOLVE A PAIR OF BRUTAL MURDERS THAT MAY BE TIED TO A CRIME FROM MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO IN THIS INTENSE AND ADDICTIVE MYSTERY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FAYE KELLERMAN On a gorgeous early summer morning in the small upstate college town of Greenbury, New York, Peter Decker is called to investigate some vandalized mailboxes on a rural street. Searching for evidence...