LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker and his team of Homicide detectives wade into a violent situation when they set out to investigate the death of Father Jupiter, a brilliant astrophysicist who vanished from the profession only to reappear ten years later as the leader of the pseudoscientific cult, the Order of the Rings of God.

The author once again casts her unerring eye on the dark impulses and abiding love that drive human beings to acts of savage violence and uinexpected tenderness.

LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favor for an old friend, Terry McLaughlin, but when she and her husband disappear, Decker's search is interrupted by the suspicious death of a young health care worker.

After a commuter airplane crashes into an apartment building shortly after takeoff from Burbank Airport, Decker and his team investigate what many fear was a terrorist attack. Meanwhile, the parents of Roseanne Dresden, a flight attendant, suspect that their daughter was murdered by her stockbroker husband, Ivan, who claims his wife joined the doomed flight at the last minute. Roseanne was considering divorce, and Ivan stood to lose financially. As...

While working for the Greenbury Police Department in upstate New York, Peter Decker must draw from his years of experience as a homicide cop when a break-in at the local cemetery leads him into a world of art forgery and murder that is linked to cold case crimes, international intrigue and ruthless people who kill for sport.

Summary: Detective team Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, in Brooklyn for the Jewish High Holy Days after their marriage, find themselves on the trail of an Orthodox teenaged runaway kidnapped by a psychopath.