Title: Stone Kiss
Description: ''It was the stunned, pale look of bad news''

The call is brief. There''s been a murder in the family of Lieutenant Decker''s half brother, Rabbi Jonathan Levine. Ephraim Lieber, a Hassidic Jew with a catalogue of problems in his past, was found dead in a seedy Manhattan hotel, a single gunshot wound to his head. And his niece, fifteen-year-old Shaynda, is missing.

In a desperate bid to track down the missing girl, Decker finds himself in an alien city and a maze of deceit and danger, on a twisted journey that takes him from the darkened slums of New Jersey and the deserted industrial streets of New York, to the hidden meeting places of Hassidic outcasts...
Subjects: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Police, Police spouses, Psychopaths, Jewish fiction, Jewish families, Hasidim, Murder, Investigation, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Jews, fiction, Fiction, religious, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Familles juives, Romans, nouvelles, Policiers, Conjoints, Psychopathes, Hassidim, Murder, fiction
Places: New Jersey, California, New York (N.Y.), Los Angeles, New York (State), Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
People: Peter Decker (Fictitious character), Rina Lazarus (Fictitious character)