Mystery Thriller

Everyone is convinced that Rabbi Avraham Klein, from the cloistered ultra-Orthodox Jewish world of Southern Michigan, committed suicide, except for the head rabbi of the Yeshiva. He asks his student, Simon Lincoln, a former police detective, to find the killer. Aided by, Dafna Lachler, a local widow and super skilled computer expert, they risk their lives to find the evidence to prove that the rabbi was murdered and discover the identity of the ruthless murderer.

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