Amy 
mystery
In The Ritual Bath, Rina’s friend, Sarah, is raped outside of the mikvah (a
Jewish ritual bath house). Detective
Peter Decker is put on the case and finds himself drawn to the close-knit
Jewish community and, particularly, Rina.
I really enjoyed this mystery. I liked getting to know the
characters and learning about life in the Orthodox Jewish yeshiva community. The casual religious slurs, sexual
harassment, and racial prejudices portrayed were relevant to the time setting
of the story but stood out to me today. The pacing of the discoveries and the
character building were terrific. I
would like to read the next one in the series to find out how the romantic
interests develop. I had never read a book by Faye Kellerman before and am glad someone in my book club suggested it.
The audiobook was read by Mitchell Greenberg. His knack for
performing different character voices got better as the novel progressed. At the beginning, I wasn’t impressed. But, by
the end, I thought he did a good job.
I’ll give him an A-. However, the
production of the recording wasn’t great.
There was often a loud hissing noise in the background which was
disruptive.
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