Title: Sacred and Profane
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Police spouses, Mystery, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Camping, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction
Places: California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.)
People: Peter Decker (Fictitious character), Rina Lazarus (Fictitious character)