This is the nine­teenth nov­el in the best­selling series fea­tur­ing the beloved team of Peter Deck­er and Rina Lazarus. Deck­er is a homi­cide lieu­tenant with the LAPD and his wife, Rina, has always helped him solve his cas­es. The plots always include inter­est­ing snip­pets from their obser­vant Jew­ish home life and details about the couple’s four grown chil­dren. In this book we hear about Peter’s daugh­ter, Cindy, who is also a cop help­ing out with the case, and Han­nah, Rina and Peter’s teenage daugh­ter, as well as the usu­al cast of char­ac­ters on Peter’s loy­al team of detec­tives. The bru­tal mur­ders of a bil­lion­aire, his wife, and four employ­ees on their gigan­tic estate make head­lines and have so many pos­si­ble angles that fol­low­ing all the leads gets a bit con­fus­ing. The sto­ry also involves many Span­ish-speak­ing sus­pects and takes us into Mex­i­co, but as the mys­tery unrav­els the char­ac­ters become eas­i­er to fol­low. Rina’s selec­tion as a juror despite her close con­nec­tion to the LAPD, and her coin­ci­den­tal con­ver­sa­tions dur­ing breaks in the cour­t­house, tie in too neat­ly to Decker’s case. How­ev­er, Decker/​Lazarus fans will sure­ly enjoy this newest addi­tion to the long run­ning series.