Final Atonement — Steve Johnson

JUDGMENT DAY

Rabbi Avraham Rabowitz lay in a pool of his own blood, a prayer shawl stuffed down his throat, and his beard shaved off. The question for gay New York police detective Doug Orlando wasn't who hated the right wing religious sect leader -- Rabowitz had been the open enemy of blacks, Hispanics, gays, pro-choice women, even fellow Jews. In a case that moved from the depths of the ghetto to the high-rise office of a glamour-boy real estate tycoon, the suspects came in every color and shade of belief. And unless Orlando defused a ticking time bomb of tension by coming up with the killer, the melting pot of the city was going to melt down....