Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Mystery
Harper
May 2011
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Featuring: Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus; Chris Whitman
448 pages ISBN: 0061702617 EAN: 9780061702617 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Murder, a missing woman, and a sociopath from the past
sweep Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus into a labyrinth of
mystery and danger in this electrifying new tale of
suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye
Kellerman. . . .
Fifteen years ago, high school senior Chris Whitman went to
jail for murdering his girlfriend, Cheryl Diggs. Propelled
by a misguided sense of chivalry, he confessed, determined
to save another classmate, the beautiful and vulnerable
Terry McLaughlin, from having to testify at his trial. When
the truth came out, Chris was released from prison, married
Terry—pregnant with his child—and changed his last name to
Donatti. He also became a professional killer.
Peter Decker was the detective on the case, and over the
years, he and Terry kept in touch. Now his friend is in
L.A. and asking for a favor. Though Decker knows full well
that getting involved will bring Terry's sociopathic
husband back into his life, the obsessive and duty-bound
LAPD lieutenant reluctantly agrees. The favor soon becomes
complicated when Terry goes missing and Donatti disappears,
leaving their fourteen-year-old son, Gabe, with no one to
turn to except Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus.
But Peter's search for Terry must share center stage with a
gruesome murder. Adrianna Blanc, a neonatal nurse at St.
Timothy's Hospital, had signed off her night shift at eight
a.m. Six hours later, a foreman supervising the
construction of a house in a nearby suburb discovered her
body swinging from the rafters, a cable wire around her
neck. Her car was found where she had parked it the night
before, with no signs of foul play.
A dedicated and conscientious professional, Adrianna had a
circle of close friends. Yet as Decker and his able team
soon learn, the young woman also had her share of
detractors. A party-hearty girl, she enjoyed booze, kinky
sex, and revenge-cheating on her boyfriend, Garth
Hammerling, another nurse at St. Tim's. Suspicions heat up
when Decker and his team find that one of Adrianna's last
phone calls was a provocative and disturbing message to her
vacationing boyfriend—who himself has vanished without a
trace. Was Adrianna's death something personal because of
her carefree lifestyle? Or was this unusually cruel and
very dramatic murder the first signs of a serial killer?
With lives hanging in the balance, Decker and his
colleagues, Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver,
need to find answers and fast.
As if juggling two investigations weren't enough for the
lieutenant (not to mention turning sixty!), things are
becoming even more dangerous with his precarious home life.
Ever the concerned parent, Decker wants to look after
Terry's son, Gabe. Yet who will protect his own family?
Because if there's one thing he knows for sure, with a
sociopath like Donatti on the loose, no one is ever really
safe.
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