This, Faye Kellerman's 13th crime novel featuring Lieutenant Peter
Decker and his wife Rina, will like its predecessors have her many
fans reading avidly until the small hours. Decker and Rina are
looking forward to a peaceful vacation when a frantic phone call
from Decker's half-brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levine, throws the
family into turmoil. The naked body of Jonathan's brother-in-law,
Ephraim Lieber, a Hassidic Jew and recovering drug addict, has been
found in a sleazy Manhattan hotel room. To complicate matters
further, Shaynda, the dead man's 15-year-old niece, has vanished.
Unable to ignore Jonathan's pleas for help, Decker soon finds
himself pounding the streets of New York in a desperate attempt to
untangle the mystery. The police are grudging with their
co-operation; the family's lawyer is antagonistic and wants him out
of New York, and when the missing girl's parents tell him to get
off the case and go back to LA, Decker is enraged. What began as a
family favour quickly becomes a quest - the more barriers that are
thrown up in his way, the more Decker becomes obsessed with the
case, following a trail of lies and deception from New York to New
Jersey, unearthing corruption and lies at every turn. Decker is out
on his own, his only lifeline a depraved psychopath who rapes and
kills as a matter of necessity. But time is running out, and he
needs help wherever he can find it. Powerful and utterly gripping,
Stone Kiss lays bare the emotional ravages caused by religious and
family conflicts. Desire for the truth is overpowered by the
abiding need to keep the family together - the whole edifice may
come toppling down if every strand of deceit is unravelled. This is
an enthralling crime novel, but at a deeper level it forces us all
to consider what we would do if faced with such dreadful choices.
Solving the crime has far-reaching consequences; life for the
Deckers will never be the same again. (Kirkus UK)
'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...
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