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

by Faye Kellerman

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: 0061490741
• ISBN13: 9780061490743
• Publish Date: 4 December 2007 (first published 1 May 1986)
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Out of Print: 11 April 2013
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

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The only other book I’ve read in this series was #9 or #10, so it was nice to see how Peter and Rina’s relationship started. I found myself sucked into this pretty quickly, and Kellerman kept me guessing until the end! I did find myself wishing for a glossary from time to time, as my knowledge of this form of Judaism is pretty lacking.