<p>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&apos;s death is raising too many questions and providing too few answers for homicide detective Lieutenant Peter Decker.</p><p>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&apos;s own -- and the secrets shared by a renegade Catholic priest...and Decker&apos;s wife, Rina Lazarus.</p>