In her 20th Rina Lazarus/​Peter Deck­er detec­tive nov­el, author Faye Keller­man does not dis­ap­point. After a cou­ple of mediocre addi­tions to this series, Keller­man comes back stronger than ever. This book fea­tures two dis­tinct crimes to be solved by LAPD Lieu­tenant Peter Deck­er and his usu­al team. One con­cerns Ter­ry, a miss­ing woman who is mar­ried to a volatile gang­ster. She has left behind Gabe, her incred­i­bly mature but lone­ly teenage son who by default falls under the care of the com­pas­sion­ate detec­tive Peter, his wife, Rina, and daugh­ter, Han­nah. The oth­er crime con­cerns the mur­der of a ded­i­cat­ed neona­tal nurse who was in a rela­tion­ship at her hos­pi­tal with a co-work­er, a male nurse who can­not be found. As in pre­vi­ous books in the series, Keller­man has includ­ed much more of the Deck­ers’ com­pli­cat­ed fam­i­ly dynam­ics. I am sure that I am just one of many read­ers who enjoy the large dose of human­i­ty brought in by details of Rina’s and Peter’s children’s inter­ac­tions with each oth­er and their par­ents. Vignettes of the Deck­er fam­i­ly add much need­ed warmth to this extreme­ly grue­some tale of mul­ti­ple murders.