Jupiter's Bones by Faye Kellerman

Jupiter's Bones by Faye Kellerman

Preeminent astrophysicist Dr. Emil Euler Ganz vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues, only to reappear fifteen years later as "Father Jupiter," founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult the Order of the Rings of God. Now he's dead--a vial of sleeping pills and an empty bottle of vodka standing near his lifeless body.

Was Ganz's death an accident? Suicide? Or did someone hasten Jupiter prematurely out of this world? These are the questions LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker is determined to answer as he enters the cult's fortress-like compound. Meanwhile, the mysterious disappearance of an Order acolyte and a child turns an already volatile situation even uglier, and Decker will need the wisdom and support of his wife, Rina Lazarus, to defuse a ticking time bomb of jealousy, greed, and lies before it explodes, destroying a multitude of misguided adult lives and scores of innocent children.

Faye Kellerman is the author of the #1 Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series, Moon Music, a New York Times bestselling thriller, and The Quality of Mercy, a historical fiction. The Ritual Bath, her first novel, won the Macavity Award for Best First Novel. Her books are currently in print in over twenty million copies around the world. She has also published several collections of short stories that have received critical acclaim. With her husband, Jonathan Kellerman, and their children, she splits her time between Los Angeles and Santa Fe.