Twelve of today’s top mystery authors bring you all-new stories that present the complexities of modern Jewish life against a riveting backdrop of crime and deception--and a little bit of humor as well. Lapsed faith, interfaith relations, golems, and more add to the intrigue in these tantalizing mysteries.
Will a husband get the answer he is looking for in subjecting his wife to an adultery-testing ritual from the Torah?
How do composer Franz Schubert and a youth from the local synagogue get involved in an old murder mystery?
What is an anti-Semite on death row doing studying Torah?
When a talmudic scholar disappears, is his wife’s fate tied to a line in an ancient text?

Contents:

• Preface by Joel Siegel
• Introduction by Lawrence W. Raphael
• O! Little Town of Bedlam by Toni Brill
• The Reading by Howard Engel
• A Final Midrash by Richard Fliegel
• The Bread of Affliction by Michael A. Kahn
• Confession by Stuart M. Kaminsky
• Holy Water by Faye Kellerman
• Jacob’s Voice by Ronald Levitsky
• Poison by Ellen Rawlings
• Lost Polars by Shelley Singer
• The Good Rabbi by Bob Sloan
• Wailing Reed by Janice Steinberg
• Mom Remembers by James Yaffe
• Kaddish by Batya Swift Yasgur