Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #16
William Morrow
August 2007
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Featuring: Peter Decker; Rina Lazarus
448 pages ISBN: 0061227323 EAN: 9780061227325 Hardcover Add to Wish List
At 8:15 in the morning, a small commuter plane carrying
forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building
in Granada Hills, California. Shock waves ripple through
Los Angeles, as L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works
overtime to calm rampant fears of a 9/11-type terror
attack. But a grisly mystery lives inside the plane's
charred and twisted wreckage: the unidentified bodies of
four extra travelers. And there is no sign of an airline
employee who was supposedly on the catastrophic flight.
Decker and his wife, Rina, have personal reasons for being
profoundly shaken by the tragedy, since the "accident"
occurred frighteningly close to their daughter Hannah's
school. Luckily, their child and her schoolmates escaped
unscathed. But the fate of the unaccounted-for flight
attendant -- twenty-eight-year-old Roseanne Dresden --
remains a question mark more than a month after the
horrific event, when the young woman's irate stepfather
calls, insisting that she was never onboard the doomed
plane. Instead, he claims, she was most likely murdered by
her abusive, unfaithful husband. But why, then, was
Roseanne's name included on the passenger list?
Under intense pressure from the department to come up with
answers, Decker launches an investigation that carries him
down a path of tragic history, dangerous secrets, and
deadly lies -- and leads him to the corpse of a three-
decades-missing murder victim. And as the jagged pieces
slowly fall into place, a frightening picture begins to
form: a mind-searing portrait of unimaginable evil that
will challenge Decker's and Rina's own beliefs about guilt
and innocence and justice.