Stone Kiss

Description:

''It was the stunned, pale look of bad news'' The call is brief. There''s been a murder in the family of Lieutenant Decker''s half brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levine. Ephraim Lieber, a Hassidic Jew with a catalogue of problems in his past, was found dead in a seedy Manhattan hotel, a single gunshot wound to his head. And his niece, fifteen-year-old Shaynda, is missing. In a desperate bid to track down the missing girl, Decker finds himself in an alien city and a maze of deceit and danger, on a twisted journey that takes him from the darkened slums of New Jersey and the deserted industrial streets of New York, to the hidden meeting places of Hassidic outcasts...

subjects: Fiction,  Thriller,  Mystery,  Detective and mystery stories,  Police,  Police spouses,  Psychopaths,  Jewish fiction,  Jewish families,  Hasidim,  Murder,  Investigation,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Jews, fiction,  Fiction, religious,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Familles juives,  Romans, nouvelles,  Policiers,  Conjoints,  Psychopathes,  Hassidim,  Murder, fiction

People: Peter Decker (Fictitious character),  Rina Lazarus (Fictitious character)

Places: New Jersey,  California,  New York (N.Y.),  Los Angeles,  New York (State),  Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)