Books like The Burnt House by Faye Kellerman

At 8:15 a.m., a commuter plane carrying forty‑seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, California. The wreckage leaves shock waves across Los Angeles and raises fears of a 9/11‑style attack. Lieutenant Peter Decker of the L.A.P.D. works overtime to calm the panic, but the true horror lies within the charred debris: four unidentified bodies, and no record of an alleged airline employee. Decker and his wife, Rina, are personally shaken because the accident occurred close to their daughter Hannah’s school, though the children escaped unharmed. The mystery deepens when the fate of flight attendant Roseanne Dresden, a twenty‑eight‑year‑old whose name appears on the passenger list, remains unknown a month later. Her stepfather calls in anger, claiming she was never on the flight and that she may have been murdered by her abusive, unfaithful husband. Driven by departmental pressure, Decker investigates, uncovering a tangled web of tragic history, dangerous secrets, and deadly lies. His search leads him to the corpse of a murder victim who had vanished three decades earlier, and a chilling portrait of unimaginable evil emerges—one that challenges Decker and Rina’s beliefs about guilt, innocence, and justice. Combining relentless suspense with multidimensional human drama, The Burnt House showcases Faye Kellerman’s compelling storytelling.

First publish date: 2007