Stone Kiss (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)
Family business can be deadly, as Peter Decker discovers in Kellerman's  latest thriller starring the L.A. police lieutenant and his wife, Rina Lazarus.  Decker's half-brother Jonathan, a New York rabbi, asks for help when his wife's  brother Ephraim Leiber is slain execution-style in a seedy New York hotel room,  and the victim's teenage niece Shayndie, who may have witnessed her uncle's  murder, disappears. But it soon becomes apparent that not everyone is as eager  for Decker's assistance as Jonathan--not the New York City cops, not the missing  girl's parents, and not the police chief in the upstate town of Quinton, where  the Liebers live in a tightly knit Orthodox Jewish enclave. Despite these  roadblocks, the ever resourceful Decker manages to locate Shayndie in the last  place one might expect to find a devout, gently raised 15-year old girl--the  heavily guarded Manhattan apartment of Chris Donatti, a Mob-connected criminal  with whom Peter has a complicated history. But when Shayndie runs away from  Donatti's loft and turns up dead a few days later, Decker's search for her  killer uncovers a deadly family secret that puts his life--and Rina's--in  jeopardy. As usual in this outstanding series, Kellerman's pacing is flawless,  her plotting ingenious, and her deep understanding of human nature reconfirmed.--Jane Adams