The 12th commandment / Daniel Torday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torday, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Jewish sects--Ohio--Fiction.

Jewish sects.

Murder--Fiction.

Murder.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--Fiction.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation).

Genre:

Novels.

Religious fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

296 pages : map ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Twelfth commandment

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023.

Summary:

"The Dönme sect--a group of Jewish-Islamic adherents with ancient roots--lives in an isolated community on rural land outside of smalltown Mt. Izmir, Ohio. Self-sustaining, deeply-religious, and heavily-armed, they have followed their self-proclaimed prophet, Natan of Flatbush, from Brooklyn to this new land. But the brutal murder of Natan's teenage son throws their tight community into turmoil. When Zeke Leger, a thirty-year-old writer at a national magazine, arrives from New York for the funeral of a friend, he becomes intrigued by the case, and begins to report on the murder. His college girlfriend Johanna Franklin prosecuted the case, and believes it is closed. Before he knows it, Zeke becomes entangled in the conflict between the Dönme, suspicious local citizens, Johanna, and the law--with dangerous implications for his body and his soul"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781250191816

1250191815

OCLC:

1359604781