Faye Kellerman: Prayers for the Dead (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
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.

Faye Kellerman: Prayers for the Dead. A Decker / Lazarus Novel. Harper, ISBN: 9780062087874 (March, 2012), 544 p., $9.99.

Faye Kellerman: Prayers for the Dead (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
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.

Faye Kellerman: Prayers for the Dead. A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380726246 (July, 1997), 424 p., $7.99.

Faye Kellerman: Prayers for the Dead (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
Dr Azor Sparks is a genius. A famous surgeon set to transform the chances for heart transplant patients. He's also a pillar of the local church and a devoted family man. So who would want to murder him? The answer, Lt. Peter Decker concludes, is many people. Sparks was obsessed by religion and his medical crusades.Yet he had odd hobbies, like riding with a pack of bikers. His family, too, is not harmonious. The influence of Bram, the son who defied his Protestant father to become a Catholic priest, appears to be all that's preventing them from destroying each other. And, as beneficiaries of an astonishingly large trust fund, they all stand to gain from his death. But then the evidence from a second murder points, unmistakably, to Bram, whom Decker thought was highly unlikely to be involved...

Faye Kellerman: Prayers for the Dead. Headline, ISBN: 0747252319 (February, 1997), 436 p., £5.99.