Roger Herst


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Rabbi Gabrielle Ignites a Tempest    by Roger Herst
Price: $2.99 USD. 91870 words. Published by Diversion Books on August 3, 2011. Fiction.

Rabbi Gabrielle takes leave from her rabbinical duties to pursue a doctorate in biblical studies at the University of Chicago. She is summoned to Israel by the Director of Antiquities in Jerusalem when her scholarly live-in boy friend cannot be found to help investigate the robbery of a newly discovered cave at Qumran, site of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.
Rabbi Gabrielle Commits a Felony    by Roger Herst
Price: $2.99 USD. 89610 words. Published by Diversion Books on August 3, 2011. Fiction.

A prized Torah scroll is stolen from Ohav Shalom. The FBI determines the event to be a "Hate Crime" and initiates an investigation. But Rabbi Gabrielle unearths clues into the theft that lead in another direction. While intensely active in her daily rabbinical duties, her attention is drawn back 65 years to the origin of the stolen Torah in the Ukraine.
Rabbi Gabrielle's Defiance    by Roger Herst
Price: $2.99 USD. 102260 words. Published by Diversion Books on August 3, 2011. Fiction.

Rabbi Gabrielle continues her personal and professional odyssey, this time toying with running for a seat in Congress. In the process she becomes entangled with a Korean computer geek who operates a successful on-line political campaign website for underfunded, unknown candidates. At the same time her congregation has lost a child burned to death in an accident lighting Hanukkah candles.
A Kiss for Rabbi Gabrielle    by Roger Herst
Price: $2.99 USD. 122440 words. Published by Diversion Books on June 22, 2011. Fiction.

Rabbi Gabrielle succeeds the senior rabbi a Congregation Ohav Shalom and in this new role must perform a funeral for her favorite Bar Mitzvah boy, now a young man recently murdered in a remote Washington DC park. This death brings her to a ghetto high school where the victim coached its struggling tennis team.
Rabbi Gabrielle's Scandal    by Roger Herst
Price: $2.99 USD. 114050 words. Published by Diversion Books on June 22, 2011. Fiction.

Rabbi Gabrielle, a young female rabbi in Washington DC, is called upon to defend an accused rapist in court, imperiling her career. She must negotiate a hostile climate both in her synagogue and in the community, while attempting to live a normal life as an attractive, unmarried woman. Here is a chance to have an internal look at the life of a clergywoman in a profession that has long been a man's

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