the ritual bath, faye kellerman
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next week is mystery/detective fiction in popular materials, and i've never read faye kellerman, so i decided to try this out. it's the first in a series (according to my sister, the rest aren't very good), and it's all about this detective, peter decker, who has to investigate this rape that occurs in "jewtown" in l.a. ("jewtown"? isn't that kind of offensive? i mean this book is from the late 1980s.) anyway, it won a macavity award for best first mystery and i liked it pretty well. the story was pretty compelling and i liked the main characters, decker and rina lazarus, this widowed jewish woman. there's this weird love thing going on between them that's completely ridiculous, though. and the "mystery" was totally weak and i had it figured out as soon as the guy who turns out to be the perpetrator was introduced as a character. hence only three point five robots. still, it's a lot better than most of the mysteries i checked out from the concord public library when i was fourteen.
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