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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Once Dr. Emil Euler Ganz was a preeminent astrophysicist with a world-renowned reputation. But then he vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues. Fifteen years later, he reappeared as "Father Jupiter," the founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult, The Order of the Rings. And now he's dead--a vial of sleeping pills and an empty bottle of vodka standing near his lifeless body.
Was Ganz's death an accident? Suicide? Or did...
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker is vacationing with his girlfriend Rina's boys when they stumble upon a gruesome sight: the skeletons of two teenage girls. Throwing himself into the murder case, he launches a quest that pulls him deep into a nightmare he must make his own.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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 murdered in Manhatten, catapulting Decker and his wife, Rina, into a heart stopping maze of murder and intrigue that spans the globe...only to touch down...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the silent pre-dawn city hours -- alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New York -- LAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered in blood that is not hers. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps forward to claim the little girl. Obsessed more deeply by this case than he imagined possible, Decker is...