Stone Kiss (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus, Book 14) by Faye Kellerman
By Faye Kellerman
Rina Lazarus has a few stunning information for her husband, LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker. A terrible homicide has happened within the relations of his half-brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levin. The rabbi's brother-in-law was once discovered slain in a seedy inn room in higher ny, and the victim's 15-year-old niece, with whom he was once spending the day, is lacking. Decker, with Rina at his part, instantly heads out to long island to aid within the research. yet what begins out as uncomplicated inquiries quickly evolves right into a twisted and threatening trip -- from the darkened slums of latest Jersey and the abandoned commercial streets of latest York to the recesses of sexual perversity and the hidden assembly areas of Hasidic outcasts. Thrust right into a lethal maze of deceit, lies, and threat, the couple can now not belief an individual -- buddy or kin. And while salvation is eventually inside of Decker's clutch, it will probably merely be introduced by way of a wicked lone wolf, hell-bent on his personal own vengeance.
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I stopped and stared but he walked on without me. I hurried to catch up. “Back when Byrdie and her mama first came to Piney Grove to worship, there was an old busybody in the congregation by the name of Ethel Cox. She had something ill to say about everybody. My mama was in charge of organizing the bake sale that year and she held a meeting at our house. Well, there wasn’t much talk about a bake sale that night. It was stuffy so Mama had opened the windows. I stood outside smoking and heard the whole thing.
He’ll never leave Bloodroot Mountain because the Cotters have lived here for generations, but I wonder if he ever wants to dust his hands of this place and move on. Millertown was the big city to me back then, before I went to Knoxville with Daddy once to buy a washing machine. Now I see it for what it really is, a country town with old houses and glass-sprinkled lots and the smokestacks of dirty-looking factories looming over everything. The buildings on Main Street are falling into disrepair but they still have character, with tall windows and painted brick and arched doorways.
One time I caught him off by hisself hid in the corn patch, reading a book of poems. His face got red as a beet and he flew so mad I thought he was going to fight me, just because I knowed he liked to read poems. ” Mr. Barnett talked about Myra’s granny, too. He said he could see why Macon was drawn to Byrdie, even though she wasn’t much to look at. She was brash and sassy and tough. “I seen her bury every one of her children and take to her bed for months at a time,” Mr. Barnett said. “But someway she always got back on her feet.