Molly Blume is a feisty crime reporter for a local Los Angeles newspaper.
She also writes true crime books so when a Rabbi asks her to help find his run-away daughter, she jumps in and tries to help in spite of the bad feelings she has for the Rabbi because of something he did to her years ago.
Because the daughter, Dassie, has lived all her life in the confines of the Jewish community, everyone is in a rush to rescue her before she's hurt or worse sexually assaulted.
That would ruin her life forever.
The book was slow and dragging in several sections but finally sped up and came to a satisfying conclusion.
The ending was a surprise but..
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all the clues were there so I didn't feel cheated.
I enjoyed reading the book not only for the mystery but because Molly and her Rabbi husband and most of the characters are Orthodox Jews.
Ms.
Krich brings her readers into the tight knit community and shows us what it's like to be an observant Jew.
She has a glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish words in the back of the book to help the reader out.
It's not all gloom and doom and religion, there's a lot of wit here, too.
I guess my one picky would be that Molly is too pushy.
She goes places and does things that most women, outside of law enforcement, wouldn't do.
She withholds information from her contact at the police department, and then is stunned when he's angry.
But all in all, it was a good book and I enjoyed reading it.
Rochelle Krich as several series going and I've read books in all of them.
She's a good, solid entertaining writer so pick up either this book or one of her others.
You won't be disappointed.