Prayers for the dead

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Police,  Police spouses,  Detective and mystery stories,  Mystery,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Fiction, thrillers, crime

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

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