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Decker and Rina face their toughest and most absorbing case to date when an entire family of California bee farmers is gruesomely slaughtered, and the motive is lost in a sticky mess of blood, sex, and honey.

Porucznik z wydziału zabójstw Los Angeles, Peter Decker, zostaje wezwany do kolejnej sprawy. O tym śledztwie będzie głośno. Cztery ofiary, morderstwo ze szczególnym okrucieństwem. Napastnik włamał się na luksusowe ranczo strzeżone przez armię ochroniarzy. Jednym z zabitych jest właściciel posiadłości, miliarder Guy Kaffey. Twórca handlowego imperium miał wielu wrogów wśród kalifornijskich biznesmenów. Dużo wątpliwości budziła też jego działalność dobroczynna. Dlaczego wspierał wyłącznie byłych więźniów? Czy popełnił błąd, zatrudniając ich jako osobistych ochroniarzy? Decker sprawdza każdą poszlakę, ale sprawa coraz bardziej się wikła, a kolejni podejrzani mają niepodważalne alibi Śledztwo zaczyna przypominać zabawę w upiorną ciuciubabkę.

Dom na przedmieściach Los Angeles. Z krokwi zwisa nagie ciało młodej kobiety. Opuchnięta twarz, kabel mocno owinięty wokół szyi. Tak zaczyna się kolejna sprawa detektywa Petera Deckera. Zamordowana kobieta była cenioną pielęgniarką, nigdy nie złamała prawa. A jednak ktoś uznał, że nie powinna dłużej żyć. Śledztwo idzie jak po grudzie, policja bezskutecznie szuka świadków i motywu zbrodni. Jednak Decker się nie poddaje. Gdy starannie prześwietla przeszłość ofiary, odkrywa, że miała więcej wrogów niż przyjaciół. Wszyscy są podejrzani, a niektórzy z nich nie zawahaliby się zabić. Deckera czeka jedno z najtrudniejszych śledztw w jego policyjnej karierze.

Detektyw Decker prowadzi dochodzenie w sprawie samobójstwa nastoletniego chłopca. Szybko dochodzi do wniosku, że klucz do rozwiązania zagadki znajduje się w szkole, do której chodził Greg Hesse. Elitarne liceum, jedno z najlepszych w kraju, jest terenem łowieckim narkotykowych dilerów i handlarzy bronią. Kilkoro uczniów prawdopodobnie współpracuje z mafią, a pozostali boją się mówić. Śledztwo rusza z miejsca, gdy umiera kolejna uczennica z tej samej szkoły. Decker uważa, że znów ktoś upozorował samobójstwo. Ktoś, kto lubi okrutne zabawy i traktuje ludzi jak marionetki.

One Dead. One Missing. One Man Who can't Look Away... In Los Angeles Lt. Peter Decker gets a frantic phone call from his family. A distant relative has been found naked and murdered in a seedy Manhattan hotel room and the man's niece, the last person who may have seen the victim alive, has disappeared. Crazed with worry, the girl's parents plead for Decker's help and soon he's racing across the continent to a city he hasn't seen in ten years. With few leads and less time, he plunges into New York's underbelly, a world where vile deeds, unregenerate evil, and sinister secrets pit brother against brother. And where Decker will question the very essence of his faith and fight for everything and everyone he holds dear-including his wife, Rina.

Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. A nice reprieve from the grueling work of a homicide cop-until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight... Two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition, are identified by a forensic dentist as teenage girls--and for Decker, the father of a sixteen-year-old daughter, vacation time is over. Throwing himself professionally and emotionally into the murder case, he launches a very personal investigation: a quest that pulls him deep into the crack dens of Hollywood Boulevard and painfully close to the children of the streets and a nightmare world he must make his own.

Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus series. Former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is relishing the quiet and slow pace of his new job with the Greenbury police department. The work is low stress and engaging, and it’s been almost a year since the last murder in this sleepy upstate New York town. Then the body of a nude man is found deep within the woods, shattering Decker’s peace. The death appears to be a suicide—a single shot to the head, the gun by his side. But until the coroner’s ruling, the scene must be treated as a suspicious crime. Without any personal effects near the body, Decker must dig to uncover his identity, a task made difficult by the department’s tight budget and limited personnel. Luckily, Decker gets some unexpected help when his friend and former Greenbury colleague Tyler McAdams calls, looking for a quiet place to study for his law finals. The investigation takes Decker and McAdams to Kneed Loft College, where they must penetrate the indecipherable upper echelons of mathematics and mathematical prodigies. Beneath the school’s rarified atmosphere they discover a sphere of scheming academics, hidden cyphers—and most dangerous of all—a realm of underworld crime that transforms harmless nerds into cold, calculating evil geniuses. It will take all of Decker’s experience and McAdams’s brains to penetrate enigmatic formulas and codes and solve a dark, twisted crime devised by some brilliant and depraved masterminds.

The brutal murder of celebrated heart surgeon Azor Sparks brings with it shock, public outrage, and a demand for answers. Immediately, Lieutenant Peter Decker and his crack team of homicide detectives begin working overtime to unravel the mystery. But the deeper they probe, the more murky the case grows. Sparks's wife and six adult children stand to inherit a sizable fortune. Vicious backbiting among jealous colleagues raises questions about the dead surgeon's pharmaceutical research. Outlaw bikers with their own agenda suddenly show up at Sparks's funeral. And Decker's investigation is further complicated by the resurrection of old secrets from his wife's past.

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 Decker is stumped--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 heart-stopping maze of murder and intrigue that spans the globe...only to touch down dangerously in their own backyard.

Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett Dr. Ben Alston Little, murdered execution-style and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz. No arrests were ever made, no killer charged for the brutal crime. Fifteen years later, the high-tech CEO reads about another execution-style murder; this time the victim is a Hollywood music producer named Primo Ekerling. There is no obvious connection, but the case is eerily similar to Little's and Genoa feels the time is right to close Dr. Ben's case once and for all-offering the L.A.P.D. a substantial financial incentive if justice is finally served for Little. Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower to a fifteen-year-old open case simply because a rich woman says Jump! Still, the recent murder of Primo Ekerling does bear a disturbing resemblance to Little's case, even though two thug suspects are currently behind bars for the Ekerling murder. Decker can't help but wonder about a connection. His first phone calls are to the two primary investigators in the Little case, retired detectives Calvin Vitton and Arnie Lamar. Lamar is cooperative, but Vitton is not only reluctant to talk, he winds up dead of a suspicious suicide twelve hours later. Plunging into this long-buried murder, Decker discovers that even though the two slayings are separated by a decade and a half, there is still plenty of greed, lust, and evil to connect the dots. Decker's team of top investigators not only includes his favorite homicide detectives, Scott Oliver and Marge Dunn, but also his newly minted Hollywood detective daughter, Cindy Kutiel, whose help proves to be invaluable. His wife, Rina Lazarus, continues to be his backbone of support, offering a cool, rational outlook despite her growing concern for her husband's welfare and safety. Rina's worries and fears begin to build at a fevered pitch as past and present collide with a vengeance, catapulting an unsuspecting Peter Decker closer and closer to the edge of an infinite dark abyss. A relentlessly gripping tale spun by a master, Faye Kellerman's The Mercedes Coffin races through a dangerous urban world of fleeting fame and false dreams, making heart-pumping hairpin turns at each step of a terrifying journey, where truth and justice are fine lines between life and death.

Lo profesional y lo personal se cruzan de un modo traicionero en esta entrega absorbente e inquietante de Faye Kellerman En los años que lleva en el Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles, Peter Decker ha lidiado con un cierto número de casos difíciles y asesinos raros. Pero pocos pueden compararse con su último caso, el más extraño de toda su carrera. Cuando Hobart Penny aparece muerto en su apartamento, la policía cree que su mascota –una tigresa adulta– ha atacado al anciano ermitaño y multimillonario. Pero pronto resulta evidente que la bestia que mató al excéntrico inversor es claramente humana. Al escarbar en la vida de la víctima, Decker y sus colegas, la sargento Marge Dunn y el inspector Scott Oliver, descubren que Penny era un hombre excepcionalmente peculiar, con gustos exóticos que incluían sexo fetichista con prostitutas. Los policías de Los Ángeles siguen un rastro de pistas que van desde un refugio de vida salvaje en los montes de San Bernardino hasta la loca vida nocturna de Las Vegas, y que los dejan con muchos sospechosos y pocas respuestas. Decker se plantea una elección difícil para resolver un caso que incluye los dos instintos más primarios: sexo y asesinato. ¿Debe acudir a un experto en ambos temas, Chris Donatti, el peligroso hombre que además es el padre de Gabriel Whitman, el problemático hijo de acogida de Decker? A medida que sus trabajos chocan con su vida íntima, Decker y su esposa Rina tienen que afrontar cuestiones difíciles. Es posible que la crisis familiar y las responsabilidades laborales resulten ser demasiado para la carrera de Decker. Una confluencia de problemas puede estresar incluso a la familia más unida. Y cuando todas esas verdades impactantes salgan a la luz, ¿cómo podrán seguir adelante Decker y Rina? ¿Y sobrevivirán? De primera clase… Fascinante… Una historia de detectives excepcionalmente bien escrita.

While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley Dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared for by a professional - in this case a male nurse with intense eyes and lots of charm. "Now the hunt is on for the mother, more than likely a scared and desperate girl in need of medical attention. Armed with advice from her overworked father, Detective Peter Decker, Cindy searches through the mean streets of her inner-city Hollywood district, following a trail filled with helpless people and violent gangs who prey on the innocent." "With each new lead, the twisted journey gets darker, battering Cindy's complex relationships and endangering her very life. When Decker and Decker join forces, can this edgy duo put personal issues aside to catch a vicious culprit before he strikes again?

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 one in the sheltered community willing to speak of this unspeakable violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of religious laws, the two grow closer. But before they get to the bottom of the horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are so shocking that they threaten to come between the hard-nosed cop and the deeply religious woman with whom he has become irrevocably linked.

A place of worship is vandalised, daubed swastikas testifying to a hatred that, for a time at least, defies understanding. But the Deckers, Rina and her detective husband Peter, soon realise the violence done to their synagogue can be traced to one deeply disturbed adolescent, Ernesto Golding. Born into privilege but obsessed by the past, he is eventually charged, his case closed. But Peter Decker still worries that others were involved. And six months later Ernesto is found murdered. Suddenly Decker and his family are plunged into a ghastly world of damaged youth, ruthless parents and secrets, with roots deep in the horrors of the last generation, which seem to demand ultimate retribution...

Cynthia Decker became a cop against her father's wishes. But police work is in her blood, and she's determined to make it on her own. She begins to feel a nagging sense that she is being watched. The feeling of dread escalates when she finds some personal effects have been crudely destroyed. It'd a harrowing trip down a dark canyon road that substantiates Cindy's worst fear: for some unknown reason, someone fiendishly relentless is stalking her. Cindy begins to covertly probe her personal and professional lives for identity of the person who wants her frightened, harmed -or dead. As her stalker grows bolder and more devious, Cindy finds her options limited and her friends and colleagues offbounds as the well-concealed rages and dark secrets of those surrounding her slowly come to light and threaten to pull a nightmare out of the shadows and in for the kill.

Who could steal a newborn baby from her mother? As Peter and Rina Decker discover, all too many people. An overly trusting nurse, a case of blackmail, and a vengeful weight lifter set the stage for Kellerman's most chilling and complex novel yet.

Summoned to investigate the murder of a high school prom queen, LAPD detective Sergeant Peter Decker is immersed in a rootless world where young lives are punctuated by mindless sex, illicit drugs, and tenuous links to reality. When a prime suspect is identified, Decker has the feeling that the case has not been exhaustively covered--certain facts just don't add up.

Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus have moved from the chaos of L.A. to upstate New York, to a quiet town that is home to elite colleges and pensioners. Semi-retired and faced with mundane call-outs at the Greenbury Police Department, Decker is becoming bored of life. So when he is called about a potential break-in at the local cemetery, he jumps at the opportunity to investigate. The Bergman crypt contains four intricately designed stained glass windows, one for each season, two of which are confirmed as definitely fake. Along with young Harvard graduate, Tyler McAdams, Decker must solve the mystery of the forgeries. His search leads him to Manhattan, although perhaps he should look closer to home: when a co-ed is brutally murdered at a local colleges, Decker must put his search for the art thief on hold. But not for long...