Faye Kellerman: Gun Games (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
The Hesse suicide strikes a troubling chord in the household of Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, now that they've taken in Gabe Whitman -- the gifted and brilliant fifteen-year-old son of a killer -- whose own unexplained comings and goings only remind Decker that he knows almost nothing about the secretive boy living under his roof. But it's a second teen suicide -- a young girl who attended the same exclusive prep school as Gregory Hesse -- that points Decker and his detectives down a dark alley of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances . . . and toward a cold-blooded group of high schoolers with a shocking predilection for guns and violence.

Faye Kellerman: Gun Games. A Decker / Lazarus Novel. Harper, ISBN: 9780062066961 (June, 2012), 467 p., $9.99.

Faye Kellerman: Blood Games (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
The latest novel in the gripping Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series - published in the USA as GUN GAMES - from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman
When fifteen-year-old Gregory Hesse is found dead, a single gunshot to his head, it appears to be a tragic suicide. But it's a verdict his mother refuses to accept and eventually her pleas for an inquiry are taken seriously.

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD knows only too well what secret lives teenagers live. He and his wife Rina have recently taken on the responsibility of raising Gabe Whitman, an enigmatic and gifted teen, after his parents abandoned him. A situation made more unnerving by Decker's realisation he knows nothing about the boy in his care.

Just six weeks later a sixteen-year-old girl commits suicide. She was a student at the same high school as Gregory, an exclusive academy well known for being a playground for the rich. As Decker's probes into the lives of these privileged teenagers, he must follow a dark trail of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances. And with the return of Gabe's father, former hit-man Chris Donnatti, the case takes an even more sinister turn...

Faye Kellerman: Blood Games. A Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Thriller. Harper, ISBN: 9780007424498 (January, 2012), 400 p., £7.99.

Faye Kellerman: Gun Games (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus are back in this gripping mystery involving a secret cabal of some of Los Angeles' most wealthy -- and vicious -- teens
LAPD lieutenant detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly welcomed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Whitman, the son of a troubled former friend, 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, Wendy, 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 -- evidence that propels him to launch a full investigation with his trusted team, Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver. But the case becomes darkly complicated by the suicide of another Bell and Wakefield student -- a death that leads them to uncover an especially nasty group of rich and privileged students with a predilection for guns and violence. Decker thought he understood kids, yet the closer he and his team get to the truth, the clearer it becomes that he knows very little about them, including his own charge, Gabe. The son of a gangster and an absent parent, the boy has had a life filled with too much free time, too many unexplained absences, and too little adult supervision.

Before it's over, the case and all its terrifying ramifications will take Decker and his detectives down a dark alley of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances, culminating at a heart-stopping point of no return.

Faye Kellerman: Gun Games. A Decker / Lazarus Novel. William Morrow, ISBN: 9780062064325 (January, 2012), 375 p., $25.99.

Faye Kellerman: Blood Games (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
The latest novel in the gripping Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series - published in the USA as GUN GAMES - from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman
When fifteen-year-old Gregory Hesse is found dead, a single gunshot to his head, it appears to be a tragic suicide. But it's a verdict his mother refuses to accept and eventually her pleas for an inquiry are taken seriously.

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD knows only too well what secret lives teenagers live. He and his wife Rina have recently taken on the responsibility of raising Gabe Whitman, an enigmatic and gifted teen, after his parents abandoned him. A situation made more unnerving by Decker's realisation he knows nothing about the boy in his care.

Just six weeks later a sixteen-year-old girl commits suicide. She was a student at the same high school as Gregory, an exclusive academy well known for being a playground for the rich. As Decker's probes into the lives of these privileged teenagers, he must follow a dark trail of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances. And with the return of Gabe's father, former hit-man Chris Donnatti, the case takes an even more sinister turn...

Faye Kellerman: Blood Games. A Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Thriller. HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780007424474 (December, 2011), 400 p., £20.00.