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The twenty-fourth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman They thought the murders were over. But now there’s a new victim… On a crisp September morning in the woods of upstate New York, Rina Decker stumbles upon...

Throughout his years with the LAPD, Peter Decker has handled a number of tough cases and strange killers. But few of his previous assignments compare to his latest case. When Hobart Penny is found dead in his apartment, the cops think that his pet cat—an adult female tiger—attacked the...

“[Kellerman] does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch “No one working in the crime genre is better.” —Baltimore Sun In Gun Games, the sensational Faye Kellerman once again showcases Peter...

Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field.

New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman spins a gripping tale of a modern-day nightmare that ensnares L.A. Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus in a web of secrets and murder. A small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building...

Ein junger Mann liegt erschossen im Winterwald von Greenbury, New York. Es sieht nach Selbstmord aus, aber Detective Peter Decker zweifelt daran. Der Tote ist Elijah Wolf, ein brillantes Mathegenie und Student des nahen Colleges. Hinter den ehrwürdigen Mauern der Elite-Uni beginnt Decker nach Antworten zu suchen und stößt dabei auf ein akademisches Schlangennest in dessen Mitte er Missgunst und Mord findet.

The twenty-first book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman LAPD Detective Peter Decker is about to face a case that will push him to the limit… Residents in a local building have been complaining of a smell coming from...

Makkerparret Peter Decker og Rina Lazarus er blevet gift. Og selv om Peter ikke er meget for det, går deres bryllupsrejse til Brooklyn, New York. Bryllupsrejsen byder på lidt af hvert, og Peter stifter i endnu højere grad bekendtskab med sin hustrus ortodoks-jødiske baggrund. En baggrund, han indtil for ganske nyligt var uvidende om, at han selv havde, da han blev adopteret som spaed. På turen bliver Peter introduceret til en jødisk højtid.

Da der sker en brutal voldtaegt uden for et badhus, hvor kvinderne i Los Angeles' jødiske menighed tager deres rituelle bad, får politimanden Peter Decker en formodning om, at gerningsstedet og motivet bag forbrydelsen haenger nøje sammen. Men Decker er ilde stedt, da badhuset mildest talt ikke er et sted for maend. Heldigvis kommer den unge, jødiske enke Rina Lazarus Decker til undsaetning, og sammen begynder de jagten på den hensynsløse voldtaegtsmand.

Los Angeles er fuld af håbefulde amatørskuespillere, der forsøger at få foden inden for i filmbranchen. Dette er der intet maerkvaerdigt i. Ej heller at en del disse skuespillere in spe tjener til dagen og vejen ved at arbejde som tjenere eller bartendere. Men da en amatørskuespiller med et bijob som bartender, pludselig åbner ild på en af byens populaere restauranter og draeber en masse uskyldige mennesker - sig selv inklusiv - er medierne straks på sagen. Og det samme er Peter Decker.

Endnu engang må Peter Decker sande, at hans nyeste sag er langt mere kompliceret end som så. Sagens omdrejningspunkt er mordet på en hjertekirurg ved navn Azor Sparks. Mordet får stor bevågenhed og der stilles krav fra alle sider om, at morderen skal findes og bringes for en domstol. Problemet er bare, at bunken af mistaenkte hober sig op. Sparks' efterlod sig en formue, som hans enke og seks voksne børn står at arve, dertil kommer en raekke kollegaer...

Peter Decker er på ferie med sin kones, Rina Lazarus, to sønner. Men ferien bliver afbrudt på dramatisk vis, da den ene af sønnerne finder to forkullede lig. Da det viser sig, at det ene offer er en 16-årig pige, der har vaeret efterlyst i tre måneder, løber det Peter koldt ned ad ryggen, da pigen minder ham og hans egen datter. Peter beslutter sig for, at sagen skal opklares koste, hvad det koste vil. Spørgsmålet er blot om Peters besaettelse med at finde pigernes morder ender med at stå i vejen efterforskningen.

Peter Decker saettes på sagen, da en indflydelsesrig diamanthandler og hele hans familie pludselig forsvinder. Sagen er omgaeret af meget mystik og en masse blindgyder. Peter frygter, at sagen vil forblive uopklaret, da han igen og igen oplever at sporene ikke fører nogen vegne. Men da en diamanthandler bliver fundet myrdet i New York, øjner både han og hans hustru og makker Rina, at der muligvis er en sammenhaeng...

The sixteenth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman A plane crashes in unexplained circumstances and the mystery deepens when police investigate. The owners know nothing of the four bodies found in the wreckage. So...

Kaida Hutchenson isn't exactly psyched for the class trip to Carlsbad Caverns. Fourteen hours in a van with preppy jock Zeke Anderson and high school loner Joy Tallon? No, thank you. But when a tragic and explosive accident turns the journey into a nightmare, Kaida would give anything to be back...

L.A. Homicide Detective Peter Decker never wanted the perils of his job to touch his family. But now his two worlds have collided. A first year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, Cynthia Decker became a cop against her father, Peter Decker's, wishes. But police work is in her blood, and...

Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Peter Decker, are shocked by an outrage that cuts close to the spiritual heart of their family. Rina's small storefront synagogue has been desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti and grisly Nazi death camp photographs. The alleged perpetrator...

The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exoticsubculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold ""killer eyes"" cannot soothe Decker's...

A man walks into a trendy Los Angeles restaurant -- a disgruntled ex-employee with an automatic weapon -- and seconds later, thirteen people are dead and thirty-two more have been wounded. It is a heinous act of mass slaughter that haunts Homicide Detective Peter Decker. But, though eyewitnesses...

A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Las Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. Investigating detective Decker is stumped--faced with a perplexing case riddled with dead ends. Then a second dealer is found...