I have never particularly cared for mysteries, especially murder mysteries. Stuart Kaminsky and Dorothy Sayers have changed my mind. I didn't think it was possible for a mystery author to philosophize about life and death, evil and good, as well as write an intriguing, twisting plot... Well, that was then and this is now. Kaminsky is a bit less polite than Sayers, but just as amusing and introspective. There are many other series by this same author, but the review I read recommended the Lieberman mysteries because of their religious undertones (Abe Lieberman is a Jewish cop, Bill Hanrahan is his Catholic partner). I should have read the first Lieberman book first, as this book refers to previous happenings in the cops' careers, but Kaminsky nicely refreshed the memories of his readers and updated new readers as myself, so can be read as a stand-alone.