It’s Prom Night…and the queen is dead. LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife and confidante Rina Lazarus have a daughter of their own. So the the savage murder of a popular high school girl on prom night strikes home… very hard. The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California’s rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold ‘killer eyes’ cannot soothe Decker’s inner torment. For he knows in his gut this crime goes much deeper and higher than anyone expects – and that true justice, brutal and complete, has yet to be done.