Decker/Lazarus
William Morrow
March 2017
On Sale: February 28, 2017
384 pages ISBN: 0062424963 EAN: 9780062424969 Kindle: B01GCCT48I Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman’s bestselling
series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods
of her upstate New York community that leads her husband,
police detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome,
decades old, unsolved murders, pointing to a diabolical,
serial killer who’s been hiding in plain sight
On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a
bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human
remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds.
Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former
detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local
Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and
tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The
body has been interred for years and there is scant physical
evidence at gravesite: a youthful skeleton, a skull wound
and long dark strands of hair surrounding the bony frame. As
Decker and his partner, Tyler McAdams, further investigate,
they realize that they’re most likely dealing with a missing
student from the nearby the Five Colleges of Upstate—a
well-known and well-respected consortium of higher learning
where Rina works.
And when more human remains are found in the same area,
Decker and McAdams know this isn’t just a one-off murder
case. Short-staffed and with no convenient entry into the
colleges, Decker enlists Rina’s help to act as the eyes and
ears of campus gossip. Winding their way through a dangerous
labyrinth of steely suspects and untouchable academics,
Decker, McAdams and Rina race to protect their community
from a psychopathic killer still in the area—and on the hunt
for a fresh victim.