Présentation de l'éditeur
n incredible new story from New York Times bestselling author, Faye Kellerman! The next exciting installment in her series starring Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus and featuring psychopath Chris Donatti and his son Gabe.
LAPD Lieutenant Detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly taken on the parental and moral obligations of raising fifteen year old, Gabriel Whitman after his parents unceremoniously dumped the boy into their care. Gabe is a brilliant piano prodigy - an enigmatic teen who is both gifted and secretive - who seems to have adapted well to his new environment. But Decker knew only too well what secret lives teenagers live. This point is brought home when Decker learns of another tragedy, the suicide of fifteen year-old Gregory Hesse.
The day after the suicide, Gregory's mother, Wendy, appears unannounced at the West Valley police station, claiming to anyone who'd listen that her son's death was no impulsive act. Intrigued by Wendy's words and conviction, Detective Lieutenant Peter Decker decides to look into Gregory's file. After Decker discovers that the gun used in the tragedy was stolen, Decker assigns his top investigators, Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver, to the case. The inquiry takes on a more nefarious tone when another suicide - this time a sixteen year old girl - occurs just weeks later. Both teens were enrolled at the same elite prep school - Bell and Wakefield - an exclusive playground from the children of the rich as well as a pressure cooker academically. As the detectives probe, they uncover a particular group of nasty high-school students with a predilection for guns and violence.
The situation becomes especially frightening when Decker realizes he knows almost nothing about the boy living under his roof. Having been home schooled, Gabe is basically on his own, keeping odd hours, coming and going as he pleases. This is especially unnerving since Gabe's father, Christopher Donatti, is a former hit man who is now living the good life as the proprietor of several bordellos in Nevada. The case and all its terrifying ramifications take Decker and his detectives down a dark alley of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances, culminating into a heart-stopping point of no-return.
LAPD Lieutenant Detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly taken on the parental and moral obligations of raising fifteen year old, Gabriel Whitman after his parents unceremoniously dumped the boy into their care. Gabe is a brilliant piano prodigy - an enigmatic teen who is both gifted and secretive - who seems to have adapted well to his new environment. But Decker knew only too well what secret lives teenagers live. This point is brought home when Decker learns of another tragedy, the suicide of fifteen year-old Gregory Hesse.
The day after the suicide, Gregory's mother, Wendy, appears unannounced at the West Valley police station, claiming to anyone who'd listen that her son's death was no impulsive act. Intrigued by Wendy's words and conviction, Detective Lieutenant Peter Decker decides to look into Gregory's file. After Decker discovers that the gun used in the tragedy was stolen, Decker assigns his top investigators, Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver, to the case. The inquiry takes on a more nefarious tone when another suicide - this time a sixteen year old girl - occurs just weeks later. Both teens were enrolled at the same elite prep school - Bell and Wakefield - an exclusive playground from the children of the rich as well as a pressure cooker academically. As the detectives probe, they uncover a particular group of nasty high-school students with a predilection for guns and violence.
The situation becomes especially frightening when Decker realizes he knows almost nothing about the boy living under his roof. Having been home schooled, Gabe is basically on his own, keeping odd hours, coming and going as he pleases. This is especially unnerving since Gabe's father, Christopher Donatti, is a former hit man who is now living the good life as the proprietor of several bordellos in Nevada. The case and all its terrifying ramifications take Decker and his detectives down a dark alley of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances, culminating into a heart-stopping point of no-return.
Biographie de l'auteur
Faye Kellerman lives with her husband, NYT bestseller Jonathan Kellerman in Los Angels, California and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
