I hate to be repetitive, but I haven't read one of these in a long time. I'd forgotten how good she is. Basically, the running characters of the series are a cop, his wife, her kids, his kid, and his partner. However --- the cop, Decker, was adopted by nice Baptist couple as an infant, and as an adult discovered that his birth parents were Jewish. His wife was a member of an ultra-orthodox Jewish community. They meet as he investigates the murder of her husband in the first book in the series. She has two young sons, now teenagers; his daughter is now college-age, and has lived primarily with her mother. Marge, Decker's partner is pretty standard for the cop's partner in a police procedural.
In this book, the Deckers are having their first child. This puts them on the scene when a baby and a nurse disappear from the hospital nursery. The trail leads through obsession and insanity as well as mere murder and child abuse. The resolution is a bit unsatisfying, she leaves us knowing the killer, but there is insufficient evidence to convict - and another person in custody confessing. Ordinarily, I would think that was much to much of a spoiler, but for some reason all that seems almost anticlimatic.
Another series to add to my to-do list - at least to pick up all the ones I've missed.
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