Sacred and Profane
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Sacred and Profane is a 1987 novel by Faye Kellerman. It is second in the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series.
A Fawcett Crest Book published by Ballantine Books.
Timeline: About six months after The Ritual Bath, starts Christmas Eve, Decker is 39.
Place: Los Angeles and Yeshiva Ohavei Torah, Foothill Division LAPD.
had taken the boys on a camping vacation when Sammy wandered off and found two burned and buried skeletons. Peter finds himself assigned the case in spite of his status in the Sex and juvie division due to an unexpected lack in departmental manpower. When starting the case after Christmas he is introduced to forensic dentist Annie Hennon who helps identify the victims as Lindsey Bates and 'Countess Dracula'. Tracking down where they might have been and been involved with leads to photographer Cecil Pode and his sons Dustin and Earl Pode, Dustin being in business with Earl's friend Cameron Smithson and his father Harrison Smithson. Earl Pode (aka Blade) is found dead in the same grave as the girls and Decker finds that his best friend Cameron is the culprit. The case takes a toll on his Talmud studies with Rav Schulman at the yeshiva and strains his relationship with Rina. Because of the stress of their maybe/maybe not marital path, at the end of the book Rina moves to New York city with her former in laws so that they can both concentrate on preparing themselves for the future, her to take a job in a relative's company to stop feeling like a charity case, he to continue his Talmudic studies and decide if he really can lead the religious life for himself and not just her.
A Fawcett Crest Book published by Ballantine Books.
Timeline: About six months after The Ritual Bath, starts Christmas Eve, Decker is 39.
Place: Los Angeles and Yeshiva Ohavei Torah, Foothill Division LAPD.
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Peter Decker is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by Faye Kellerman. A lieutenant in the LAPD, Decker is assisted in solving crimes by his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus....
had taken the boys on a camping vacation when Sammy wandered off and found two burned and buried skeletons. Peter finds himself assigned the case in spite of his status in the Sex and juvie division due to an unexpected lack in departmental manpower. When starting the case after Christmas he is introduced to forensic dentist Annie Hennon who helps identify the victims as Lindsey Bates and 'Countess Dracula'. Tracking down where they might have been and been involved with leads to photographer Cecil Pode and his sons Dustin and Earl Pode, Dustin being in business with Earl's friend Cameron Smithson and his father Harrison Smithson. Earl Pode (aka Blade) is found dead in the same grave as the girls and Decker finds that his best friend Cameron is the culprit. The case takes a toll on his Talmud studies with Rav Schulman at the yeshiva and strains his relationship with Rina. Because of the stress of their maybe/maybe not marital path, at the end of the book Rina moves to New York city with her former in laws so that they can both concentrate on preparing themselves for the future, her to take a job in a relative's company to stop feeling like a charity case, he to continue his Talmudic studies and decide if he really can lead the religious life for himself and not just her.