The Beast (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series #21)

by Faye Kellerman Narrated by Mitchell Greenberg

Overview

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. 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 human. Digging into the victim's life, Decker and his colleagues discover that Penny was an exceptionally peculiar man with exotic tastes, including kinky sex with call girls.

Following a trail of clues that leads from a wildlife sanctuary in the San Bernardino Mountains to the wild nightlife of Las Vegas, the LAPD detectives are left juggling too many suspects and too few answers. To break open the case, Decker wrestles with a difficult choice: turning to Chris Donatti, the dangerous man who also happens to be the father of Decker's foster son, Gabriel Whitman.

As their work and intimate worlds collide, Decker and his wife, Rina, find themselves facing tough questions. And when all these shocking truths comes out, exactly how well will Decker and Rina cope, and survive?

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

“First-rate...fascinating...an unusually well-written detective story.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review on Gun Gams
“Kellerman succeeds brilliantly in making the search for understanding as compelling as the search for the murderer.” - Publishers Weekly
“Readers will be frantically flipping pages.” - People
“No one working in the crime genre is better.” - Baltimore Sun
“A master storyteller.” - Chattanooga Free Press
“Exceptionally fine suspense.” - San Diego Union-Tribune
“Fascinating...Fast-paced and dynamic.” - Dallas Morning News
“Engaging.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170039869
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/06/2013
Series:	Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series , #21
Edition description:	Unabridged

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