One dark night, LAPD sergeant Peter Decker finds a blood-spattered two-year-old--all alone in the woods, with no one to claim her.

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed. The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only...

Sergeant Peter Decker of the LAPD had just seen his wife give birth to a baby daughter after a very difficult labor, only to have the head nurse and another baby girl disappear from the very hospital nursery where his new daughter was sleeping

"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 quiet suburban street in upstate Greenbury, New York, the brutally beaten body of a young man is discovered in the woods adjacent to an empty vacation home. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil...

"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...

A shocking mass murder at a trendy L.A. restaurant thrusts Lieutenant Peter Decker into the lurid world of moneyed Southern California where everything and nearly everyone can be bought.

"Peter Decker and his current partner, Tyler McAdams, believes that a developmentally disabled man who vanished while on an outing from his residential home, went off with someone he knew, even as the remains of other young men are unearthed in the forest. And for Decker, personal problems are adding pressure as well. After a ten-year absence, the biological mother of Decker's and Rina's foster son, Gabriel, has suddenly appeared in New York."

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 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.

When Lilah Brecht, the beautiful if unstable owner of a popular health spa, is found beaten, raped, and robbed in her own home, L.A. detective Peter Decker takes the case. Lilah claims to have psychic powers, which Decker finds difficult be believe. And when a family member is murdered, he gets the distinct impression that Lilah, her faded actress mother and even her brothers are keeping secrets and starring in their own home movie of deception...

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.