The Burnt House

The Burnt House by Faye Kellerman At 8:15 in the morning a
small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers
crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills
California. Shock waves ripple through Los Angeles as
L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime to calm
rampant fears of a 9/11-type terror attack. But a grisly
mystery lives inside the planes charred and twisted
wreckage: the unidentified bodies of four extra travelers.
And there is no sign of an airline employee who was
supposedly on the catastrophic flight. Decker and his wife
Rina have personal reasons for being profoundly shaken by
the tragedy since the accident occurred frighteningly
close to their daughter Hannahs school. Luckily their
child and her schoolmates escaped unscathed. But the fate
of the unaccounted-for flight attendant —
twenty-eight-year-old Roseanne Dresden — remains a
question mark more than a month after the horrific event
when the young womans irate stepfather calls insisting
that she was never onboard the doomed plane. Instead he
claims she was most likely murdered by her abusive
unfaithful husband. But why then was Roseannes name
included on the passenger list? Under intense pressure
from the department to come up with answers Decker
launches an investigation that carries him down a path of
tragic history dangerous secrets and deadly lies — and
leads him to the corpse of a three-decades-missing murder
victim. And as the jagged pieces slowly fall into place a
frightening picture begins to form: a mind-searing
portrait of unimaginable evil that will challenge Deckers
and Rinas own beliefs about guilt and innocence and
justice. Combining relentless suspense with intense
multilayered human drama The Burnt House is Faye Kellerman
at her mesmerizing best.