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The Ritual Bath
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novels: Book 1

The Ritual Bath (1986) (edit title/settings)

by Faye Kellerman (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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Someone declares unholy war on the holiest of places when the quiet, ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered by an unspeakable crime: a woman is brutally raped as she returns from the mikvah, the bathhouse where women perform their cleansing ritual.

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Someone declares unholy war on the holiest of places when the quiet, ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered by an unspeakable crime: a woman is brutally raped as she returns from the mikvah, the bathhouse where women perform their cleansing ritual.

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD has never heard anything like it, and he's relieved to find Rina Lazarus there as a witness. Calm and intelligent, Rina is the only one in the community willing to cooperate 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 ...

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"The key to a good potato kugel is good potatoes" Sarah Libba shouted over the noise of the blow dryer.

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Chapters 1 - 23

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This is book 1 of 23 in Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novels. (standard series)

Followed by Sacred and Profane.

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  1. Faye Kellerman (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Arbor House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0877957711
Page Count: 282

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  • Library of Congress: PS3561.E3864 R5 1986
  • Dewey: 813.54

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Reading Level: Young Adults

Ages 16 +. Contains violence against women. Non gruesome.

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