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A man walks into a trendy Los Angeles restaurant - a disgruntled ex-employee with an automatic weapon - and seconds later, thirteen people are dead and thirty-two more have been wounded. It is a heinous act of mass slaughter that haunts Homicide Detective Peter Decker. But, though eyewitnesses saw only the lone gunman - who apparently took his own life after his bloody work was done - evidence suggests more than one weapon was fired.

Even among the Celtic nations with their noble tradition of bards and story-tellers, the Welsh stand out for the sheer weight and number of their stories. Drawn from many sources including the great book of 'The Mabinogion1, traditional Celtic mythology, and local folklore this collection of tales has been adapted by popular children's author Faye Saxeby and brought to life in an enchantingly warm reading by the lovely Welsh actress Angharad Rees.

While Ben and Ro found happiness as a couple in part 1, Ben's obsession with his sister's murderer continues to consume him. Now, on Christmas day, he will make his way to Berkeley, hoping to find answers before the killer strikes again. Will Ben and Ro find the missing pieces before it's too late?

Three years ago, 15-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her - until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a shallow grave by the river's edge. Ben, now 17, is relentlessly driven to find answers to Ellen's homicide. Police believe she was the victim of a psychopath known as the Demon.

L.A. Homicide Detective Peter Decker never wanted the perils of his job to touch his family. But now his two worlds have collided. A first year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, Cynthia Decker became a cop against her father, Peter Decker's, wishes. But police work is in her blood, and...

Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l'harmonie familiale s'est disloquée en même temps que son "petit pays", le Burundi, ce bout d'Afrique centrale brutalement malmené par l'Histoire. Plus tard, Gabriel fait revivre un monde à jamais perdu. Les battements de cœur et les souffles coupés, les pensées profondes et les rires déployés, le parfum de citronnelle, les termites les jours d'orage, les jacarandas en fleur.

New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying crime novel of suspense as a young man’s obsessive investigation into his sister’s death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer. Part 1 of Killing Season centers around a teenaged boy, Ben Vicksburg...

Ben is now certain his sister was the victim of a sadistic serial killer and refuses to let any distractions get in his way of bringing this monster to justice: not his rocky relationship with Ro, his rekindled friendship with J. D., or Detective Sam Shanks' constant warnings to butt out and let the police handle the investigation. But the ominous winds of Santa Fe are kicking up and there's nowhere left to hide. Find out what happens as Ben, Ro, and Detective Sam Shanks come head to head with the killer in the conclusion of Killing Season.

LAPD lieutenant detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly welcomed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Whitman into their home. While the enigmatic teen seems to be adapting easily, Decker knows only too well the secrets adolescents keep - witnessed by the tragic suicide of another teen, Gregory Hesse, a student at Bell and Wakefield, one of the city’s most exclusive prep schools. Gregory’s mother refuses to believe her son shot himself and convinces Decker to look deeper. What he finds disturbs him. The gun used in the tragedy was stolen....

The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff shortages. And when a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery, Peter and Rina fear for the safety of their own precious child.

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.

Already an international sensation and prize-winning best seller in France, an evocative coming-of-age story of a young boy, a lost childhood, and a shattered homeland. Burundi, 1992. For 10-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expatriate neighborhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister Ana, is something close to paradise. These are carefree days of laughter and adventure - sneaking Supermatch cigarettes and gorging on stolen mangoes - as he and his mischievous gang of friends transform their tiny cul-de-sac into their kingdom.

When NASA scientists announced that instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sensed signs of liquid water seeping on the Martian surface, they meant a solution salty enough to kill most living things on Earth.

With funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, several researchers are making progress toward more humanlike prosthetic hands—ones that give users a sense of control and touch.

Makkerparret Peter Decker og Rina Lazarus er blevet gift. Og selv om Peter ikke er meget for det, går deres bryllupsrejse til Brooklyn, New York. Bryllupsrejsen byder på lidt af hvert, og Peter stifter i endnu højere grad bekendtskab med sin hustrus ortodoks-jødiske baggrund. En baggrund, han indtil for ganske nyligt var uvidende om, at han selv havde, da han blev adopteret som spaed. På turen bliver Peter introduceret til en jødisk højtid.

Da der sker en brutal voldtaegt uden for et badhus, hvor kvinderne i Los Angeles' jødiske menighed tager deres rituelle bad, får politimanden Peter Decker en formodning om, at gerningsstedet og motivet bag forbrydelsen haenger nøje sammen. Men Decker er ilde stedt, da badhuset mildest talt ikke er et sted for maend. Heldigvis kommer den unge, jødiske enke Rina Lazarus Decker til undsaetning, og sammen begynder de jagten på den hensynsløse voldtaegtsmand.

Los Angeles er fuld af håbefulde amatørskuespillere, der forsøger at få foden inden for i filmbranchen. Dette er der intet maerkvaerdigt i. Ej heller at en del disse skuespillere in spe tjener til dagen og vejen ved at arbejde som tjenere eller bartendere. Men da en amatørskuespiller med et bijob som bartender, pludselig åbner ild på en af byens populaere restauranter og draeber en masse uskyldige mennesker - sig selv inklusiv - er medierne straks på sagen. Og det samme er Peter Decker.

Endnu engang må Peter Decker sande, at hans nyeste sag er langt mere kompliceret end som så. Sagens omdrejningspunkt er mordet på en hjertekirurg ved navn Azor Sparks. Mordet får stor bevågenhed og der stilles krav fra alle sider om, at morderen skal findes og bringes for en domstol. Problemet er bare, at bunken af mistaenkte hober sig op. Sparks' efterlod sig en formue, som hans enke og seks voksne børn står at arve, dertil kommer en raekke kollegaer...

Peter Decker er på ferie med sin kones, Rina Lazarus, to sønner. Men ferien bliver afbrudt på dramatisk vis, da den ene af sønnerne finder to forkullede lig. Da det viser sig, at det ene offer er en 16-årig pige, der har vaeret efterlyst i tre måneder, løber det Peter koldt ned ad ryggen, da pigen minder ham og hans egen datter. Peter beslutter sig for, at sagen skal opklares koste, hvad det koste vil. Spørgsmålet er blot om Peters besaettelse med at finde pigernes morder ender med at stå i vejen efterforskningen.

Peter Decker saettes på sagen, da en indflydelsesrig diamanthandler og hele hans familie pludselig forsvinder. Sagen er omgaeret af meget mystik og en masse blindgyder. Peter frygter, at sagen vil forblive uopklaret, da han igen og igen oplever at sporene ikke fører nogen vegne. Men da en diamanthandler bliver fundet myrdet i New York, øjner både han og hans hustru og makker Rina, at der muligvis er en sammenhaeng...