New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman has received resounding critical acclaim for her novels featuring LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, including the Baltimore Sun's contention that "no one working in the crime genre is better." And her spellbinding literary magic has never been more potent than in this electrifying new thriller that begins with an act of destruction and progresses to multiple murders. The unofficial caretaker of her small storefront synagogue, Rina is shocked when she receives a morning call from the police. The modest place of worship has been desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti and grisly Nazi death-camp photographs. Rina's husband, Lt. Peter Decker, is also rocked by this out-rage, which cuts close to the spiritual heart of his family, but he can't let his emotions get in the way of his duties. A suspect is soon in custody. Seventeen-year-old Ernesto Golding is one of L.A.'s children of wealth and privilege, a rich kid obsessed with haunting suspicions about the origins of his Polish paternal grandfather, who moved to Argentina after the Third Reich collapsed. Charges are brought against Ernesto, a deal is cut, and the vandalism case is eventually closed. Still, Decker has never abandoned the possibility that others were involved in the desecration. And his hunch is confirmed when, six months later, Ernesto is found brutally murdered along with his therapist, Dr. Mervin Baldwin, at the psychologist's exclusive nature camp that caters to the wealthy's troubled chil dren. Suspicion falls immediately on Bald-win's psychologist wife, Dee, who has vanished Pyow worther probing by Decker fails to

ISBN: 9780688156145