Day of Atonement

by Faye Kellerman

ISBN: 9780747234319

Published: 1991

There are ten days between the New Year and the Day of Atonement. Ten days to right the spiritual and physical wrongs - and only three things could avert the evil decree... When Police Sergeant Peter Decker agreed to spend his honeymoon - and his New Year - with his wife’s former in-laws in the most rigidly respectable Jewish district in Brooklyn, the worst he thought it could be was dull. He was wrong. For when Noam, the teenage son of a close family friend, goes missing Decker finds his honeymoon is suddenly over. Noam appears to have taken off across America with a shadowy individual who has a penchant for knives - and for dominating vulnerable adolescent boys. Up to now he has channelled his anger into his favourite hobby, gutting fish. But his inner violence is expressing itself more and more openly. Time is running out for Decker - and for Noam. And they both know there are only ten days between New Year and the 'Day of Atonement...'