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The ritual bath [the first Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus novel]

A report of rape in a Los Angeles yeshiva brings police detective Peter Decker into an insular Orthodox Jewish community but the strict religious practices and customs of the community prevent him from following his standard investigative procedures.

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  • "A report of rape in a Los Angeles yeshiva brings police detective Peter Decker into an insular Orthodox Jewish community but the strict religious practices and customs of the community prevent him from following his standard investigative procedures."@en
  • "Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus are trying to solve a murder together. As they are working they begin to realize that they are falling in love."@en
  • "The quiet, ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered when a woman is brutally raped as she returns from the mikvah, the bathhouse where women perform their cleansing ritual. Detective Peter Decker has never heard anything like it. And although most of the community refuses to talk to him, Rina Lazarus, the only witness, does, steering him through the maze of confusing religious laws that thwart his investigation at every turn. As the trail grows cold, Decker's only getting closer to Rina and not to the rapist--or is he? Maybe Rina was the intended victim all along. And the rapist may not stop with rape the next time ..."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "Sergeant Decker is called to investigate a rape charge in an isolated Orthodox Jewish Community. Rina Lazarus, the young widow who found the victim, is the only one in the community willing to co-operate with Decker as she tries to steer him through the maze of religious laws that thwart his investigation at every turn. But as the trail grows cold, Decker and Rina grow closer - until a sudden horrific revelation about the case threatens to tear them apart."@en
  • "A woman is raped in a Yeshiva community. Detective Peter Decker teams with the religious Rina Lazarous in an effort to solve the crime."@en
  • "Detective Peter Decker from the Los Angeles police department meets Rina Lazarus as he investigates a vicious rape at a California Jewish college or "yeshiva". There are well-researched insights into Jewish life."
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "A report of rape in a Los Angeles yeshiva brings police detective Peter Decker into an insular Orthodox Jewish community, but the strict religious practices and customs of the community prevent him from following his standard investigative procedures."

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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
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  • "Jewish fiction"
  • "Jewish fiction"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
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  • "The ritual bath a novel"
  • "The ritual bath [the first Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus novel]"@en
  • "The Ritual bath"
  • "The ritual bath the first Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus novel"
  • "The ritual bath"@en
  • "The ritual bath"
  • "The ritual bath : a Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus novel"@en
  • "The ritual bath [the first Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel] /Faye Kellerman"@en

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