Family business can be deadly, as Peter Decker discovers in Kellermans latest thriller starring the L.A. police lieutenant and his wife, Rina Lazarus. Deckers half-brother Jonathan, a New York rabbi, asks for help when his wifes brother Ephraim Leiber is slain execution-style in a seedy New York hotel room, and the victims teenage niece Shayndie, who may have witnessed her uncles murder, disappears. But it soon becomes apparent that not everyone is as eager for Deckers assistance as Jonathan--not the New York City cops, not the missing girls parents, and not the police chief in the upstate town of Quinton, where the Liebers live in a tightly knit Orthodox Jewish enclave. Despite these roadblocks, the ever resourceful Decker manages to locate Shayndie in the last place one might expect to find a devout, gently raised 15-year old girl--the heavily guarded Manhattan apartment of Chris Donatti, a Mob-connected criminal with whom Peter has a complicated history. But when Shayndie runs away from Donattis loft and turns up dead a few days later, Deckers search for her killer uncovers a deadly family secret that puts his life--and Rinas--in jeopardy. As usual in this outstanding series, Kellermans pacing is flawless, her plotting ingenious, and her deep understanding of human nature reconfirmed.