{"id":8976,"date":"2017-03-26T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2021-06-03T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T19:44:52","slug":"the-ritual-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/8976","title":{"rendered":"The Ritual Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ritual Bath<\/a><\/em> (1986) Faye Kellerman<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Rina Lazarus is a young widow with two sons who teaches at the yeshiva and who helps maintain the mikvah–the bath used for ritual cleansing.<\/p>\n

Peter Decker is a detective for the LAPD, and is called out when a rape occurs at the yeshiva. <\/p>\n

\u201cA rape in Jewtown,\u201d Marge muttered. \u201cI\u2019ve always thought of the place as sacrosanct. Sort of like a convent. Who\u2019d rape a nun?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWho\u2019d rape, period?\u201d Decker said. <\/p>\n

\u201cGood point.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The biggest problem, however, is getting the victim to cooperate with the police.<\/p>\n

I found this fascinating. I’d been told for years that I’d really like this series, but there are a lot of books, and I of course needed to find the first book in the series and then…<\/p>\n

This book was published in 1986, so like The Monkey’s Raincoat<\/em> there are a lot of things seem really strange (take phone lines being cut–would a modern kid even understand what that meant?) but since I enjoy historical books, this is just a different kind of historical.<\/p>\n

Decker glanced at the computers\u2014 six IBM PCs, four Apple MacIntoshes. \u201cLooks like some money has been spent here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That made me giggle.<\/p>\n

And I really really liked reading all the religious bits. Those things fascinate me AND it’s unusual to see extremely orthodox characters shown in a positive light. Orthodox religion (of any type) is often just a shorthand for “bad guy” so the complexity was a lovely change
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by William Morrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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