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Book Review of The Forgotten (Decker/Lazarus, Bk 13)

The Forgotten (Decker/Lazarus, Bk 13)
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Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide LT. Peter Decker, are shocked by an outrage that cuts close to the spiritual heart of their family. Rina's small storefront synagogue has been desecrated with anti-Sematic graffiti and grisly Nazi death camp photos. The suspect is a 17 year old "Rich Kid" Ernesto Golding obsessed with haunting suspicions about the origins of his Polish paternal grandfather.Then Ernesto is found brutaly murdered, along with his therapist, at a nature camp that caters to moneyed , troubled kids. For Decker and his wife finding out the truth behind Ernesto's death becomes more sinister with each twist. For lethal secrets with roots in the horrors of a past generation are coming to the surface, pushing Peter and Rina into a ghostly world of ruthless parents and damaged youth. And towards a dark evil and its ultimate retribution.