When I saw the title, I knew I had to get the book - a ritual bath is such an unusual custom outside the Jewish community. I was original exposed to the word in Israel some 40 years ago when during an excavation we discovered a mikvah and now I had a chance to read about that custom in a thriller no less. I enjoyed the characters, their religious devotion and in a sense obscurity in the US, but had trouble with the many Hebrew words or sentences (all in italics for some reason). The ending was certainly not surprising but the romantic in me liked the solution (almost Jewish too) suggested by their Rabbi