The Missing Hand

by Susan Van Dusen

Overview

A stolen heirloom reveals long-buried sins among a peaceful Midwestern Jewish community in this mystery from the author of Poisoned Passover. 

While running the Crestfall, Illinois, Torah study group can be rewarding, it isn't especially eventful, until a valuable heirloom is stolen from one of the group's members. Known as a yad—the Hebrew word for hand—it is used to keep one's place while reading the Torah. And this particular yad happens to be encrusted with a fortune's worth of jewels. Now the mayor's wife, Julia Donnelly, finds herself volunteering to help find the item.

With no experience in crime detection beyond what she's seen on TV, Julia and the Torah group leader Rabbi Fine attempt to solve the mystery and address the misery it is causing. But they soon find that the heirloom they seek holds a mystery of its own—one that reaches back to the Second World War—about the enigmatic man who brought this priceless yad to America in the first place.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504090131
Publisher:	Open Road Media
Publication date:	12/26/2023
Series:	Torah Group Mysteries , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Susan Van Dusen has been a teacher in Chicago and Jerusalem, an editorial director of WBBM Radio, and a writer for magazines and newspapers. She is the author of four children's books, three on the history of Skokie, and a founder of "Coming Together in Skokie," a project to unite diverse cultures. She has lived in the village of Skokie for thirty-five years with her husband George, sons Danny and David, daughter-in-law Diana, and two perfect grandchildren, Anthony and Zoe. Van Dusen's hobbies are playing the dulcimer and ukulele, reading, and performing onstage. The Missing Hand is the first in her series of Jewish holiday cozies.