A Tale of Two Rabbis

Book excerpt: "Visiting Pittsburgh to take part in a university medical study that might cure his chronic health problems, Rabbi Ben is asked to find an elderly rabbi: The chaplain of a retirement home and beloved spiritual leader of a suburban congregation has gone missing. Accepting the challenge as a pastime and civic duty, Ben stumbles into a complex web of deception and intrigue revolving around a patient, highly sophisticated con artist. The investigation turns deadly when somebody locks Ben in a burning house. Then a lone assassin shows up. A band of gunmen attacks his temporary lodging, and a bomb destroys his car. With help from four women, including a septuagenarian landlady, a rookie police detective, an oversexed accountant, and Miryam, his fiancé, Ben dodges death and unmasks a horrifying plot whose origins go back to the last days before the Holocaust"--