Kellerman, Faye. <br/><br/>
The ritual bath / 
by Faye Kellerman. 
 - New York :  Fawcett Crest,  c1986. 
 - 277 p. ;  18 cm. 
<br/><br/> Someone has declared unholy war on the holiest of places. The quiet ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered by an unspeakable crime: a woman is brutally raped as she returns from the mikvah, the bathhouse where women perform their cleansing ritual. Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD has never heard anything like it, and he's relieved to find Rina Lazarus there as a witness. Calm and intelligent, Rina is the only one in the community willing to cooperate with Decker, as she tries to steer him through the maze of religious laws that thwart his investigation at every turn. But as the trail grows cold, Decker's only getting closer to Rina and not to the rapist--or is he? Maybe Rina was the intended victim all along. And the rapist may not stop with rape the next time... 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0449213730 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>85026809 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Decker, Peter (Fictitious character)--Fiction.<br/>Lazarus, Rina (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Police--Fiction.--California--Los Angeles<br/>Jewish women--Crimes against--Fiction.<br/>Rape--Investigation--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories.<br/>Jewish fiction.