Sacred and Profane (The Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series - Book 02 - 1987)

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 daughter, vacation time is over. Throwing himself professionally and emotionally into the murder case, he launches a very personal investigation: a quest that pulls him deep into the crack dens of Hollywood Boulevard and painfully close to the children of the streets and a nightmare world he must make his own.

A Master Of Mystery

-Cleveland Plain Dealer

Moves crisply the characters are deep and well drawn-Faye Kellerman is a talented writer.

-Chicago Sun-Times

Faye Kellerman lives with her husband, novelist Jonathan Kellerman, and their family in Los Angeles, California.

Chicago Sun-Times

Moves crisply the characters are deep and well drawn-Faye Kellerman is a talented writer.

While on a camping trip, Detective Peter Decker and his two young charges come across the charred remains of two teenage girls. Embroiled in a disturbing case, Decker's only unifying thread in a network of violence and corruption is the deaths of the two apparently very different young girls You can keep your white Christmas, thought Decker dreamily, as sunlight blanketed his prone frame. Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 5, 2007).