Fifteen years ago, high school senior Chris Whitman went to jail for murdering his girlfriend, Cheryl Diggs. Propelled by a misguided sense of chivalry, he confessed, determined to save another classmate, the beautiful and vulnerable Terry McLaughlin, from having to testify at his trial. When the truth came out, Chris was released from prison, married Terry -- pregnant with his child -- and changed his last name to Donatti. He also became a professional...

Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, risk life and limb to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than twenty years ago. On a quiet suburban street in upstate Greenbury, New York, the brutally beaten body of a young man is discovered in the woods adjacent to an empty vacation home. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil a resident of the neighboring town of Hamilton, had no criminal record, few friends, worked full-time,...

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...

Detective Sergeant Peter Decker of the LAPD and his partner Marge Dunn search for Baby Girl Rodriguez who has been stolen from the hospital nursery by nurse Marie Bellson. Peter and Marge drive themselves to untangle Bellson's murky past. The harder Decker works, the more he realizes time is runnning out.

Lilah Brecht, daughter of Hollywood movie queen, is brutally raped. Blindfolded during the attack, her description of the attacker comes from her gift of second sight and she proclaims that Detective Sergeant Pete Decker is the only policeman who can truly understand and help her.

A mass execution at the scene of a trendy Los Angeles restaurant turns into a nightmare for LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker when it becomes obvious that the triggerman found dead at the scene was not acting alone.

Decker must solve a 15-year-old cold case--the murder of saintly Bennett Little, a high school history teacher whose bound body the police found, with three shots in the back of his head, in the trunk of Little's Mercedes. When unscrupulous music producer Primo Ekerling turns up dead in the trunk of his Mercedes, Genoa Greeves, a wealthy computer mogul with fond memories of Little as a teacher, offers the LAPD a seven-figure charitable donation to...

Throughout his years with the LAPD, Peter Decker has handled a number of tough cases and strange killers. But few of his previous assignments compare to his latest case -- the most bizarre of his storied career. When Hobart Penny is found dead in his apartment, the cops think that his pet cat -- an adult female tiger -- attacked the reclusive elderly billionaire. But it soon becomes clear that the beast that killed the eccentric inventor is all too...

Cynthia Decker, a first-year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, has not made a lot of friends due to her Ivy League education, famous father, and smart-mouthed attitude, so when she begins to sense she is being followed she believes it may be a prank played by fellow officers--a lapse of judgment that almost costs Cindy her life.

Detectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son's biological mother upends Decker's home life.