Lentorama 2024: Clerical Crime Solvers

Day 27: David Winter

David Winter is an Orthodox rabbi in Los Angeles who, kind of like David Small on the opposite coast, gets into investigating murder when he becomes the prime suspect in one. In this case, it's the killing of a feminist rabbi who had been a guest on his weekly radio show. 

From what I can tell from reading synopses, though, Rabbi Winter's deductive process is a little more instructive in Jewish practice and folklore. This tracks with the interests of his creator, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, whose bibliography is largely non-fiction and covers a range of topics from Judaism. 

Note that Winter's first case actually appears in two different books, where the victim has a different name but the crime is more or less the same.