An explosive new thriller from the bestselling Faye Kellerman featuring LA detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. At 8.15am, a small green suburb of Los Angeles is turned into a fiery inferno by a commuter plane crash, plunging the city's emergency services into a major crisis. A month later, one mystery from the wreckage still remains unsolved. A woman's body - initially thought to be a stewardess - is instead revealed to be an undiscovered homicide, decades old. Who is this nameless victim? And why is the stewardess still missing? As they begin to unravel years of deception, Lieutenant Peter Decker and his team come closer and closer to the shocking truth -- and a confrontation with a vicious killer.

The Return of Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus.

At 8.15am, a commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into a building in Los Angeles. The LAPD's first priority is to allay fears that this is another terrorist outrage. Their second is to explain the bizarre mystery they discover in the debris.

An extra, unidentified, body has been found in the wreckage - but there is no trace of another woman who was supposedly on the flight.

To answer the riddle, Lieutenant Peter Decker and his team will have to dig back through three decades of tragic history to uncover the evil behind these crimes ... and what they find challenges their most basic assumptions about truth, guilt and justice.

Born in St Louis, Faye Kellerman is one of the most highly considered US crime authors. Her first novel, The Ritual Bath (1986), introduced Sergeant Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. It also won the 1987 Macavity award for Best First Mystery. Kellerman currently lives in Beverly Hills with her husband and four children.

2008-08-13 A good mystery

This is the first book I have written by this author and on the whole I enjoyed it and would probably read another of hers. It was very easy to read, I would say it is a good mystery rather than a thriller, as it's not dramatic or frightening, it is simply about how the police solve the decades old murder of one woman and the recent disappearance of another, but it IS a good mystery with lots of interesting twists and turns along the way. Interesting and enjoyable, if slightly drawn out, I did feel there was quite a bit of stuff in there that had no relevance to the story, but if you enjoy a good mystery then it's well worth a read.