Faye Kellerman: The Ritual Bath (UK 2019)

From the Publisher:
The first book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman

A woman who thought she was safe...
Detective Peter Decker is used to working difficult cases. But even he is shocked by the call that comes in from the remote yeshiva community in the hills behind Los Angeles. Their sanctuary has been shattered -- a woman has been viciously attacked after leaving the bathhouse.

A community shocked to its core...
The community is highly suspicious of outsiders -- persuading people to talk will be difficult. But against the odds, Decker forms a connection with the young widow who discovered the victim, Rina Lazarus.

A case that gets harder at every turn...
Together, Rina and Decker work to expose the culprit. But then a shocking revelation comes to light. Will Decker uncover the truth? And even if he does, will it tear him and Rina apart?

Faye Kellerman: The Ritual Bath. A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Thriller. HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780008293536 (March, 2019), eBook, 1.42 MB (ca. 400 p.), £4.99.

Faye Kellerman: The Ritual Bath (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
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 cleansing ritual is performed.

The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only one in the sheltered community willing to speak of this unspeakable violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of religious laws, the two grow closer. But before they get to the bottom of this horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are so shocking, they threaten to come between the hard-nosed cop and the deeply religious woman with whom he has become irrevocably linked.

Faye Kellerman: The Ritual Bath. The First Decker / Lazarus Novel. Harper, ISBN: 9780061999246 (January, 2011), 368 p., $9.99.

Faye Kellerman: The Ritual Bath (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
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 cleansing ritual is performed.

The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only one in the sheltered community willing to speak of this unspeakable violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of religious laws the two grow closer. But before they get to the bottom of this horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are so shocking that they threaten to come between the hard-nosed cop and the deeply religious woman with whom he has become irrevocably linked.

Faye Kellerman: The Ritual Bath. The First Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel. Avon Books; ISBN: 0380732661 (August, 1999); 374 p., $7.99.

Faye Kellerman: The Ritual Bath (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
When the call comes in, Detective Peter Decker can hardly believe it. A rape at the yeshiva up in the canyon and hill country behind Los Angeles? True, there had been some recent anti-Semitic vandalism but never any violence. Not only that, but this was a strict Orthodox Jewish community, self-enclosed and suspicious of outsiders. Not much chance they'd co-operate with the police. And he is right - as Rina Lazarus, the frustratingly fascinating young widow who found the victim proves when she talks about her world. Outsider he may be, but Decker has a feeling in his policeman's bones that the cost of privacy to this determined community could be murderously high...

Faye Kellerman: The Ritual Bath. Headline; ISBN: 0747255911 (June, 1996), 512 p., £5.99 (?).