Serpent's Tooth

Description:

A man walks into a trendy Los Angeles restaurant -- a disgruntled ex-employee with an automatic weapon -- and seconds later, thirteen people are dead and thirty-two more have been wounded. It is a heinous act of mass slaughter that haunts Homicide Detective Peter Decker.But, though eyewitnesses saw only the lone gunman -- who apparently took his own life after his bloody work was done -- evidence suggests more than one weapon was fired. It is a disturbing inconsistency that sends Decker racing headlong into a sordid, labyrinthine world of Southern California money and power, on an investigation that threatens to destroy his reputation and his career.

subjects: Fiction, thrillers, suspense,  Fiction,  Police,  Police spouses,  Detective and mystery stories,  Mystery,  Mass murder,  Murder,  Investigation,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Mystery fiction,  Belletristische Darstellung,  Attentat,  Aufklärung <Kriminologie>,  Polizeibeamter,  Jüdin,  Altes Testament

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

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