Hold the Cream Cheese, Kill the Lox: A Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife Mystery

When the murder of a lox cutter wreaks havoc with a double bar mitzvah, Ruby traces the victim's past to Nazi-era Denmark and embarks on a chase that takes her from wintry Alaska's salmon streams to a New Jersey smokehouse.

Sharon Kahn has worked as an arbitrator, attorney, and freelance writer. She is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Arizona Law School. She has written two children's books in addition to her Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife Mysteries -- Fax Me a Bagel, Never Nosh a Matzo Ball, and Don't Cry for Me, Hot Pastrami. A mother of three, she lives in Austin, Texas, where she is busy writing the next book in the series, Which Big Giver Stole the Chopped Liver? Her Web site is www.sharonkahn.com