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woman, the daughter of a
Holocaust survivor, who
chooses exile in Paris; it's a
story of romance and love
and healing, set against
Parisian immigrant neigh-
borhoods. The author is an
American living in
Toronto.
• The Sabbathday River
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is
a thriller set in a small New
Hampshire town where
Naomi Roth, a New York
Jewish transplant, has direct-
ed her idealism. When Roth
finds a dead infant in a river,
she gets involved in the legal
case, along with a fellow
Jewish New Yorker; it is a
case full of secrets, disturbing
facts and many twists.
• Woman of the Cloth by
Roger Herbst (Shengold), a
former congregational rabbi
who also has worked as a
professor of history and
writer for television, is a
mystery in which the leading
character is a woman rabbi.
She gets caught up in a
power struggle and sex scan-
dal involving leaders of her
congregation. With
sleuthing powers reminiscent
of the late Harry
Kemelman's Rabbi Small
(Sunday the Rabbi ...),
Rabbi Gabby Lewyn helps
solve mysteries about her
congregants and her rabbinic
predecessor. The author is
now working on a sequel.
Novels:
Paperback
• Starting Out in the
Evening by Brian Morton
(Berkley), a winner of the
Koret Foundation Book
Award, is about an aging
noted writer and the young
graduate student who wishes
to write her thesis about his
work; it's a compelling and
funny portrait of the literary
life, set on the Upper West
Side of New.York. Included
in this edition is reading
group material.
• The Eleanor Roosevelt
Girls by Bonnie Bluh (Lyre
Bird) is a novel of women's
GOOD READS
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xl- Pctordinary.
`Jupiter's Bones'
Faye Kellerman's fans — and they are legion —
will be happy to know that Peter Decker and
Rina Lazarus are back. That is made abundant-
ly clear on the cover of Kellerman's new book,
Jupiter's- Bones (William Morrow; $25), where,
in a large circle with large type, it is duly noted.
Perhaps that notation is necessary because
in Kellerman's last book, Moon Music, she
strayed from the antics of the tried-and-true
couple (now in their 11th adventure together),
and many of her fans were disappointed.
This time, however, there is much to cheer
about. Kellerman seems to have re-energized
herself in a story that deals with cults, astro-
physics, the Orthodox Jewish family lifestyle
and characters who are both real and far out
— an.interesting mix told in a story that keeps
the reader on the edge of his seat.
When Dr. Emil Euler Ganz, a preeminent
astrophysicist with a reputation for brilliance,
disappears from academia, rumors abound. No
one — not his family, his friends or his col-
leagues — knows what
happened to him.
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VUITS:SELINC
When Ganz reap-
pears 10 years later as
Father Jupiter, leader of
the Order of the Rings
of God, a pseudoscien-
tific cult, gossip and
conjecture about his
sanity abounds. And
when Father Jupiter dies
suddenly, speculation
arises once again — this
time as to whether his
death is an accident, a
suicide or a homicide.
Father Jupiter's demise brings about ques-
tions for Peter Decker and Decker's Los Angeles
Police Department buddies. The cult resents
the police department's intrusion, and becomes
openly hostile when Father Jupiter's attendants
discover that two cult members, including a
child, are missing. They think the LAPD has
masterminded the disappearance in order to
infiltrate the cult, and begin to do everything in
their power to discourage the investigation. The
situation becomes threatening and ugly — with
visions of Waco and Jonestown in mind.
Kellerman mixes gritty detail with everyday
life in a way that keeps the reader turning the
pages. The plot varies between the gory details
of homicides and murders to the pain of a
teenager trying to come CO terms with the con-
flicts he has about his religious lifestyle and the
constraints he sometimes feels attending an
Orthodox Jewish day school.
Some storylines are tied up better than oth-
ers, but despite this minor flaw, Jupiter's Bones
is a welcome late slimmer read for Faye
Kellerman's followers and new fans, as well.
BONES
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