The Ritual Bath
Book 1 of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus
Language: English
California Contemporary Women Crime Decker; Peter (Fictitious Character) Fiction General Jewish Fiction Jewish Women - Crimes Against Jewish women Lazarus; Rina (Fictitious Character) Los Angeles Los Angeles (Calif.) Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery Fiction Police Police - California - Los Angeles Police Procedural Police spouses Political Rape Rape - Investigation Romance Suspense Thriller
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Published: May 30, 1986
Description:
Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah , the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.
The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only one in the sheltered community willing to speak of this unspeakable violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of religious laws, the two grow closer. But before they get to the bottom of this horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are so shocking, they threaten to come between the hard-nosed cop and the deeply religious woman with whom he has become irrevocably linked.