Rabbis and Gangsters: A Murder Mystery Novel

Yael Gold is in love with her boss, Rabbi Judah Loeb, but when the rabbis wife is found murdered, Yael goes from love-addled naïf to panicky murder suspect overnight. Set in a desert suburb in the Southwest, this brilliant, tense murder mystery keeps readers constantly guessing whodunit. Was it Yaels husband, an insecure Klezmer musician with a savants gift for musical trivia or one of Judah Loebs many mistresses? Or is the culprit the ethically-challenged senior rabbi whose open marriage scandal rocks his desert communityor is it the mysterious former mafia hitman known only as The Scumbag? With humour and suspense it follows Yael through the shocking murder as her troubled pasta philandering rabbi father, her Cuban gangster relatives, and scarring childhood abuseprovides scope to her difficult but triumphant journey to becoming a spiritual leader. See more