Part of Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, book 16
First published 2007
A commuter plane slams into a Granada Hills apartment building at 8:15 AM, killing forty-seven passengers and sending shockwaves through Los Angeles. Lieutenant Peter Decker races to quell fears of another terror attack, but the wreckage holds a disturbing secret: four unidentified bodies that shouldn't be there. A month later, the stepfather of missing flight attendant Roseanne Dresden calls with explosive news. The twenty-eight-year-old was never on that plane, he insists. Her abusive husband likely murdered her instead. But her name appears on the passenger manifest. Decker digs deeper and uncovers a web connecting the crash to a murder victim missing for three decades. The investigation forces Decker and his wife Rina to confront dangerous truths that will test everything they believe about justice and innocence.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: investigation, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Granada Hills, Los Angeles
Period: 21st-century
448 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow
Content warnings: death, murder