Faye Kellerman: Jupiter's Bones (UK 2019)

From the Publisher:
The eleventh book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman

A secretive cult.
Dr. Emil Ganz was once a prize-winning astrophysicist with a world-renowned reputation. But for the past 15 years, he has been known as Father Jupiter, the autocratic but beloved leader of a mysterious cult.

An unexplained death.
Detective Peter Decker is called out to the cult's fortress-like compound when Ganz is discovered dead - a vial of sleeping pills and an empty vodka bottle by his side. Accident? Suicide? Or murder?

A race against time.
The longer Decker spends inside the cult, the more concerned he becomes. Jealousy and greed are rife, and members start to disappear in unexplained circumstances. Soon, he finds himself locked in a desperate battle to uncover the cult's secrets before scores more lives are put in danger.

Faye Kellerman: Jupiter's Bones. A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Thriller. HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780008293581 (March, 2019), eBook, 1.86 MB (ca. 400 p.), £4.99.

Faye Kellerman: Jupiter's Bones (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
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: Jupiter's Bones. A Decker / Lazarus Novel. Harper, ISBN: 9780062087904 (March, 2012), 544 p., $9.99.

Faye Kellerman: Jupiter's Bones (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
Once Dr. Emil Euler Ganz was a preeminent astrophysicist with a worldrenowned reputation. But then he vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues. Fifteen years later, he reappeared as "Father Jupiter," the founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult, The Order of the Rings. And 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 and his Homicide team are determined to answer as they enter the cult's fortresslike compound. But the dead leader's four "privileged" attendants make it clear that the police are not welcome there--and the mysterious disappearance of two of the Order's members, including a child, turns an already uncomfortable situation even uglier and more incendiary. Decker will need more than the wisdom and support of his wife, Rina Lazarus, to defuse a ticking time bomb of jealousy, greed, bizarre hidden pasts, and deadly secrets--one that could explode at any time into mayhem so pernicious that it threatens to destroy a multitude of misguided lives--and scores of helpless, innocent children as well.

Faye Kellerman: Jupiter's Bones. A Decker / Lazarus Novel. Avon, ISBN: 0380730820 (June, 2007), 448 p., $7.99.

Faye Kellerman: Jupiter's Bones (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
Once Dr. Emil Euler Ganz was a preeminent astrophysicist with a worldrenowned reputation. But then he vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues. Fifteen years later, he reappeared as "Father Jupiter," the founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult, The Order of the Rings. And 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 and his Homicide team are determined to answer as they enter the cult's fortresslike compound. But the dead leader's four "privileged" attendants make it clear that the police are not welcome there--and the mysterious disappearance of two of the Order's members, including a child, turns an already uncomfortable situation even uglier and more incendiary. Decker will need more than the wisdom and support of his wife, Rina Lazarus, to defuse a ticking time bomb of jealousy, greed, bizarre hidden pasts, and deadly secrets--one that could explode at any time into mayhem so pernicious that it threatens to destroy a multitude of misguided lives--and scores of helpless, innocent children as well.

Faye Kellerman: Jupiter's Bones. Avon, ISBN: 0380730820 (July, 2000), 437 p., $7.50.

Faye Kellerman: Jupiter's Bones (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
In his eleventh mystery, Pete Decker fears that the death of a guru could precipitate deadly danger for the innocent children of the cult-like community he founded.

Emil Ganz was always extraordinary. Child genius. Prize-winning astrophysicist. And then, aged 40, missing person. A decade later he re-emerges as Jupiter, guru of an apocalyptic new age cult, bringing shame on his family, worrying local parents and intriguing Detective Pete Decker. But when he's found dead, apparently from an overdose, the consequences of his death are even more extraordinary, and terrifying, than of his life...

Faye Kellerman: Jupiter's Bones. Headline, ISBN: 0747259224 (July, 2000), 500 p., £5.99.