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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...
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The ritual bath, Faye Kellerman
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- The ritual bath
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Faye Kellerman
- Publisher
- Headline Feature
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN10
- 0747255911
- ISBN13
- 9780747255918
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Thriller, Suspense, USA, Murders, Detective Fiction, Series, Jews, America, Jewish Literature, Rape, Los Angeles
- Original title
- The ritual bath
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- 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...