"Over the years, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus have got through a lot together. They've faced more than their share of serial killers and psychopaths. But this time two very different cases may cause them to re-evaluate everything they hold dear. One case involves Gabe, the troubled boy they've taken into their home. The other is much stranger - a man is found dead in his apartment, apparently mauled by his pet tiger. There is more to each case than...

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. As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now, he and his devoted...

"Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in Upstate New York, in the very woods where a man previously went missing ... But that's not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with. Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter and Rina's foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles with her two other children in tow, hoping to avoid a court injunction amid a messy...

Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Lt. 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 is seventeen year-old Ernesto Golding, a "rich kid" obsessed with haunting suspicions about the origins of his Polish paternal grandfather. Then Ernesto is found...

Murder hits close to home as one of Pete's relatives is found dead in a seedy Manhattan hotel room. Missing from the scene is the dead man's teenage niece -- the last person to see the victim alive. It's been ten years since Pete walked the streets of New York, and now he has no choice but to return to the city's underground. When he finds the girl in the last place anyone would think to look, devastating family secrets emerge.

A gunman walks into a Los Angeles restaurant and opens fire. He kills 13 people and wounds 30, then apparently commits suicide. Apparently, because as Lieutenant Peter Decker discovers, other shots were fired, coming from a different direction.

Decker becomes deeply involved in the case of a teenaged girl whose body he discovered in the hills, and it strains his relationship with Rina and his study of Judaism.

A Los Angeles cop and a Jewish widow team up to solve the sticky murder of a family of beekeepers in California.

Two diamond dealers and their families have vanished, and LAPD detective Peter Decker is on the case.

Peter and Rina are delighted with their newborn baby girl, but the scene at the Los Angeles hospital is a nightmare. Budget cutbacks and staff shortages so compromise security in the nursery that Peter, the ever-anxious cop, worries about his family's safety.