BAD RABBI
Rabbi Louis Abrams did not get stoned today.
In truth, Louis Abrams is not a bad rabbi. He’s a charming, intelligent spiritual leader and teacher. But he’s also a habitual cheat and his loyal wife, Rebecca, a successful businesswoman/baker, has had about enough. She’s banished him from their bedroom over suspicion of yet another affair and threatened divorce.
The chief rabbi of a large suburban New Jersey synagogue, Louis commits not to stray, but Louis will always be Louis. After meeting and falling for an attractive Philadelphia radio personality, his tightly controlled world comes undone. He finds himself separated from his wife and facing an ugly, public divorce, one that he’s certain, based on his past infidelities, will lead to the loss of his position and any claim on his wife's much better assets and income.
He determines to fix the mess he’s created by having his wife murdered. And should he be successful, his plan will not just eliminate the need for a messy divorce but guarantee him access to his wife's wealth and secure his place in the synagogue and community.
Rabbi Louis Abrams did not get stoned today.
In truth, Louis Abrams is not a bad rabbi. He’s a charming, intelligent spiritual leader and teacher. But he’s also a habitual cheat and his loyal wife, Rebecca, a successful businesswoman/baker, has had about enough. She’s banished him from their bedroom over suspicion of yet another affair and threatened divorce.
The chief rabbi of a large suburban New Jersey synagogue, Louis commits not to stray, but Louis will always be Louis. After meeting and falling for an attractive Philadelphia radio personality, his tightly controlled world comes undone. He finds himself separated from his wife and facing an ugly, public divorce, one that he’s certain, based on his past infidelities, will lead to the loss of his position and any claim on his wife's much better assets and income.
He determines to fix the mess he’s created by having his wife murdered. And should he be successful, his plan will not just eliminate the need for a messy divorce but guarantee him access to his wife's wealth and secure his place in the synagogue and community.
Rabbi Louis Abrams did not get stoned today.
In truth, Louis Abrams is not a bad rabbi. He’s a charming, intelligent spiritual leader and teacher. But he’s also a habitual cheat and his loyal wife, Rebecca, a successful businesswoman/baker, has had about enough. She’s banished him from their bedroom over suspicion of yet another affair and threatened divorce.
The chief rabbi of a large suburban New Jersey synagogue, Louis commits not to stray, but Louis will always be Louis. After meeting and falling for an attractive Philadelphia radio personality, his tightly controlled world comes undone. He finds himself separated from his wife and facing an ugly, public divorce, one that he’s certain, based on his past infidelities, will lead to the loss of his position and any claim on his wife's much better assets and income.
He determines to fix the mess he’s created by having his wife murdered. And should he be successful, his plan will not just eliminate the need for a messy divorce but guarantee him access to his wife's wealth and secure his place in the synagogue and community.
About STEVE LEVINE
Steve Levine has been a full-time, professional writer for nearly 30 years. Starting as a freelancer with a Philadelphia weekly, he has been a staff reporter at three daily newspapers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and at a national advertising newsweekly in New York. For a year he ran his own feast-or-famine P.R. firm from home and, for the past ten years, has been a writer in higher education.
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Genre: Fiction (Novel)
ISBN: 978-1947021167
Publication Date: July 18, 2018
