Consulting Detective

That there had been some "trouble" at Beth Shalom Synagogue, as Dr. Chernievski had put it, was a serious understatement: It was a murder and a hate crime rolled into one. Rabbi Jacob Klemme had been killed by a blow to the head, apparently when he surprised someone spraying anti-Semitic slogans on the walls inside the synagogue.

In his fourteen years with the Pine Bluff Police Department in Illinois, Detective Mihdí Montgomery had risen through the ranks. He had been a detective now for thr...