The Day the Rabbi Resigned, Harry Kemelman
The Day the Rabbi Resigned, Harry Kemelman
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The Day the Rabbi Resigned

Author: Harry Kemelman

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/16/2012


Synopsis

Rabbi Small has left the synagogue, but he’s not done with sleuthing, in this “engaging” mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author (New York Newsday).

After three decades of dealing with temple politics and getting involved with more than a handful of murder investigations, Rabbi David Small is ready to retire from his synagogue in the cozy Boston suburb of Barnard’s Crossing. For years, his secret desire has been to permanently take up teaching, but when he finally leaves the synagogue to pursue that dream, life at a university proves more dangerous than he thought.

Late at night, a notoriously ambitious college professor dies in a car wreck. The academic had been drinking heavily, but evidence suggests that the crash might not have been an accident. The local police are stumped and enlist the only detective they know whose astute eye and quick mind come from a higher power: Rabbi Small.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ivonne

Rabbi David Small has been the rabbi at the Barnard’s Crossing synagogue for 25 years. In fact, he was came just as the building was finished. But Small has been feeling a bit stale lately. After all these years and at age 53, should he leave his post? And should he move into a different line of wor......more

Goodreads review by Elena

I have to admit, I didn't finish this novel. I got through chapter 17. The back of the cover said there was a murder mystery in the book but as of chapter 17, it hadn't happened yet. I'm not the kind of reader that needs a body in the first chapter--I'm willing to let the author tell it his/her own......more

Goodreads review by Genna

I really enjoy these books, largely because the murder of the murder mystery always seems to be an afterthought, like halfway through Kemelman was all "Oh WAIT, I should kill someone off, huh?" In other books that would be infuriating, but somehow in these it's weirdly endearing.......more

Goodreads review by Amy

I really wanted to like this book. It just doesn’t have the emotional stakes or compelling mystery that I remember from other books in the series.......more