Blessed art Thou, Oh Lord, who has made a distinction between sacred and profane”), and on the next page, we encounter a graphic but utterly gratuitous description of intercourse. Thus, we are presented again and again with unsubtle juxtapositions-for example, we are invited to read a fragment of Hebrew liturgy (“Baruch atah Adonei.
Kellerman adopts a tone of heavy-handed irony to express the contrast between the mean streets of Los Angeles, where Decker finds himself at war with both evil and self-doubt, and the serenity that prevails in the grounds of a yeshiva where Rina and her two young sons live. Mass Market (January 25th, 2011): $9.While the affair of the heart between Rina, the exquisite young widow, and Decker, the rugged street cop, is refined and circumspect and (mostly) spiritual, the author forces herself to describe every revolting detail of the prostitution and pornography ring that Decker pursues after stumbling across the charred remains of two of its victims.Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural.Throwing himself professionally and emotionally into the murder case, he launches a very personal investigation: a quest that pulls him deep into the crack dens of Hollywood Boulevard and painfully close to the children of the streets and a nightmare world he must make his own. Two human skeletons, charred beyond recognition, are identified by a forensic dentist as teenage girls-and for Decker, the father of a sixteen-year-old daughter, vacation time is over. A nice reprieve from the grueling work of a homicide cop-until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight. Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys.
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