Stone Kiss

Description

'It was the stunned, pale look of bad news' The call was from Rabbi Jonathan Levine, Decker's recently discovered half brother. There has been a murder in Jonathan's family; his brother-in-law, a Hassidic Jew and former drug addict, was found naked 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...

Faye Kellerman was born in St Louis, Missouri. She began her career as a dentist but turned to writing after the birth of her eldest child in 1978. Faye now has four children and lives with them and her husband, novelist and psychologist Jonathan Kellerman, in Los Angeles.

A cracking new tale featuring the orthodox Jewish LA Police Lieutenant Pete Decker who this time journeys to New York after a Hassidic Jew and former drug addict was found murdered and a 15-year-old girl is missing. Decker finds himself in a strange city and struggling to free himself out of a maze of deceit and danger.