Murder in the Mikveh

Rabbi Whyte expects a quiet morning when she checks the mikveh at Synagogue B'Kol Makom. Instead, she finds a white sundress floating on the water-and beneath it, the body of Rina Simonson, a bride who came to immerse before her wedding. The discovery is shocking, and the implications reach far beyond the tiled walls of the ritual bath. This is not the first time death has struck her synagogue, but this time the loss is painfully close to home.

Detective Misha Tara, who previously investigat...