Title: Serpent's Tooth
Description: 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. It is a disturbing inconsistency that sends Decker racing headlong into a sordid, labyrinthine world of Southern California money and power, on an investigation that threatens to destroy his reputation and his career.
Subjects: Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, Police, Police spouses, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, Mass murder, Murder, Investigation, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Mystery fiction, Belletristische Darstellung, Attentat, Aufklärung <Kriminologie>, Polizeibeamter, Jüdin, Altes Testament
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles <Calif.>
People: Rina Lazarus (Fictitious character), Peter Decker (Fictitious character)