Sacred and profane.

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Police spouses,  Mystery,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Camping, fiction,  Fathers and daughters, fiction

People: Peter Decker (Fictitious character),  Rina Lazarus (Fictitious character)

Places: California,  Los Angeles,  Los Angeles (Calif.)