Serpent's Tooth by Faye Kellerman

Serpent's Tooth by Faye Kellerman

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.

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.

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.