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Detective Peter Decker investigates a rape at the yeshiva in the hills of his Los Angeles police district. He is both helped and hindered in the case by Rina Lazarus, a young widow who found the victim, as she tries to explain the religious practices that prevent the detectives from following the necessary investigative procedures.
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LAPD sergeant Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, are drawn into the bizarre world of Lilah Brecht, the daughter of a screen-star goddess, owner of the renowned Valley Canyon Spa Resort, and confidante to Hollywood's most beautiful, but neurotic, leading ladies.
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Ten years after prominent astrophysicist Dr. Emil Euler Ganz disappeared and became Father Jupiter, the founder of a pseudoscientific cult, he is found dead with a fifth of vodka and a vial of pills by his bedside. As LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker begins to investigate the death, the cult turns violent and erupts into mayhem that threatens not only the lives of its naive adult members but also scores of helpless children.
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G.K. Hall
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2000.
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Large print edition.
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368 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
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A report of rape in a Los Angeles yeshiva brings police detective Peter Decker into an insular Orthodox Jewish community but the strict religious practices and customs of the community prevent him from following his standard investigative procedures.
12) Stalker: a novel
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LAPD rookie Cynthia Decker is being stalked. As her stalker grows bolder and more devious, Cindy finds her options limited, her friends and colleagues off-bounds--as the well-concealed rages and dark secrets of those around her slowly come to light and threaten to pull a nightmare out of the shadows and in for the kill.
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LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, rush to New York when one of Peter's relatives is killed and the victim's niece goes missing. They find themselves in the seedier areas of the city, where their survival is placed in the hands of a vengeful lone wolf.
15) Street dreams
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Rescuing a newborn that has been abandoned in a dumpster, LAPD officer Cindy Decker, the daughter of detective Peter Decker, begins a quest through inner-city Hollywood in search of the baby's mother and uncovers a dangerous drug ring.
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New York Times bestselling author Kellerman delivers a riveting collection of 14 crime and mystery short stories—plus four bonus tales—compiled for the first time in one volume.
THE GARDEN OF EDEN AND OTHER CRIMINAL DELIGHTS marks the highly anticipated return of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus in three neverbefore- published short mysteries, including "The Garden of Eden," where Peter and Rina investigate the death of a...
THE GARDEN OF EDEN AND OTHER CRIMINAL DELIGHTS marks the highly anticipated return of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus in three neverbefore- published short mysteries, including "The Garden of Eden," where Peter and Rina investigate the death of a...
17) The burnt house
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In the aftermath of a suspicious commuter plane crash in Los Angeles, police lieutenant Peter Decker investigates the claims of one family that foul play had been involved, a suspicion that gains credibility when a key victim is discovered to be someone else.
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Los Angeles police detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina Lazarus' young sons, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. When one of the boys stumbles on two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition but identified by a forensic dentist as teenage girls, vacation time is over for Decker. The father of a teenage daughter himself, Decker throws himself into the murder case,...
20) Blindman's bluff
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Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees. While Decker leads his homicide team throughout California and into Mexico, he thinks his own wife is on jury back at the courthouse. But a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the heart of the murder investigation, and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers.
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