I've been reading a lot of World War II books lately and needed a break from the heavy reading, so I ordered up this book for my Kindle. I'd heard of Faye Kellerman but never read any of her books. I always like to start at the beginning rather than dive into the middle of a series. For one thing, when a series begins oftentimes the author's protagonists are fresh and more 3 dimensional. As time goes on, too many times in a series the author gets tired of their creations and simply write to satisfy their fan base. Anyway, in this book Kellerman introduces a duo that is definitely different from any other two protagonists I've seen...one is a detective in a sex crime unit, and the other is the female target of a crime in a yeshiva (which makes her a very religious Jew). This introduces the reader not only to a good mystery/crime but also to a chance to learn about another culture, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The history and the religious information made the people become more alive in the book, and a lot of the problems of the growing attraction between Decker (the cop) and Rina (the woman in the yeshiva) becomes more understandable when the rules and laws of the Jewish religion is explained.