The Ritual Bath (Decker/Lazarus Novels, #1) (The Crime Club) (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, #1)

by Faye Kellerman

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When the call comes in, Detective Peter Decker can hardly believe it. A rape at the yeshiva up in the canyon and hill country behind Los Angeles? True, there had been some recent anti-Semitic vandalism but never any violence. Not only that, but this was a strict Orthodox Jewish community, self-enclosed and suspicious of outsiders. Not much chance they'd co-operate with the police. And he is right - as Rina Lazarus, the frustratingly fascinating young widow who found the victim proves when she talks about her world. Outsider he may be, but Decker has a feeling in his policeman's bones that the cost of privacy to this determined community could be murderously high...
  • ISBN10 0747255911
  • ISBN13 9780747255918
  • Publish Date 19 September 1996 (first published 1 May 1986)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Headline Publishing Group
  • Imprint Headline Book Publishing
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 288
  • Language English