Prayers for the dead
by Faye Kellerman
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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.
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Fiction, Police, Rina Lazarus (Fictitious character), Peter Decker (Fictitious character), Police spouses, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Decker, peter (fictitious character), fiction, Lazarus, rina (fictitious character), fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, California, fictionPlaces
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Prayers for the Dead: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)
July 1, 1997, Avon
in English
0380726246 9780380726240
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Prayers for the Dead (Nova Audio Books)
August 1, 1996, Nova Audio Books
Audio cassette
in English
- Abridged edition
1561009199 9781561009190
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Prayers for the dead: a Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel
1996, G.K. Hall
in English
0783819102 9780783819105
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Prayers for the Dead (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)
August 1, 1996, Unabridged Library Edition
Audio Cassette
in English
- Unabridged edition
1561003344 9781561003341
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Prayers for the Dead (Bookcassette(r) Edition)
August 1, 1996, Bookcassette
Audio Cassette
in English
1561007099 9781561007097
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"A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel."
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The brutal murder of Dr. Azor Sparks in an alley behind a restaurant is greeted with public outrage and a demand for swift, sure justice. But the investigation into the well-known surgeon's death is raising too many questions and providing too few answers for homicide detective Lieutenant Peter Decker.Why, for example, would the family of a man so beloved respond to his slaying with more surprise than grief? And what linked a celebrated doctor with strict fundamentalist beliefs to a gang of outlaw bikers? But the most unsettling connection of all is the one that ties the tormented Sparks family to Peter Decker's own -- and the secrets shared by a renegade Catholic priest...and Decker's wife, Rina Lazarus.
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