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Hold the Cream Cheese, Kill the Lox (Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife, Bk 4)
Hold the Cream Cheese Kill the Lox - Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife, Bk 4
Author: Sharon Kahn
ISBN-13: 9780425191316
ISBN-10: 0425191311
Publication Date: 8/5/2003
Pages: 256
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 31 ratings
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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6 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

Gracious-Granny avatar reviewed Hold the Cream Cheese, Kill the Lox (Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife, Bk 4) on + 137 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
very interesting insight into WW2, and Alaska in winter plus being funny as well. Ruby is great!
ladycholla avatar reviewed Hold the Cream Cheese, Kill the Lox (Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife, Bk 4) on + 2081 more book reviews
Very nice cozy with good humour.
reviewed Hold the Cream Cheese, Kill the Lox (Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife, Bk 4) on + 141 more book reviews
It isn't easy being a rabbi's wife in Eternal Texas. It's even harder being a rabbi's widow. In this book Essie Sue's obnoxious twin cousins are in town for pre-Bar Mizvah schooling. And somehow, Ruby (the rabbi's widow) has been roped into letting the terrible 12 year olds stay with her. Herman Guenther, the master lox cutter meets an untimely demise from his own slicing knife. Will Ruby solve the mystery? This is a great mystery series.
3 stars.
SanJoseCa avatar reviewed Hold the Cream Cheese, Kill the Lox (Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife, Bk 4) on + 328 more book reviews
This "Kosher Kozie" is the fourth in the Ruby the Rabbi's Wife Mystery Series. In this mystery, Ruby travels from Texas to Alaska and on to New Jersy to solve the murder of a quiet "lox cutter." The combination of the Jewish and Texas cultures are hilarious and provide a wonderful "taste of Jewish American life." Some of the characters are a bit extreme but offer plenty of comic relief. The author includes in the story some interesting information about the history of the New York bagel industry. If you are looking for a fun, light-hearted "cozy." try HOLD THE CREAM CHEESE, KILL THE LOX.
reviewed Hold the Cream Cheese, Kill the Lox (Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife, Bk 4) on + 988 more book reviews
It isn't easy being a rabbi's wife in Eternal, TX. It's even harder being a rabbi's widow. More than a year after her husband's death, the congregation still expects Ruby to behave "appropriately." But sometimes it's hard to be pious and ladylike when you're investigating a murder.

I found it an above average cozy. The heroine is intelligent, introspective and very believable. She makes it through the day relying on herself first, her friends second and fending off those members of the community who expect her to be someone she isn't. It's a bonus for mystery readers that she stumbles over bodies along the way.
amjones1 avatar reviewed Hold the Cream Cheese, Kill the Lox (Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife, Bk 4) on + 79 more book reviews
Wonderful funny mystery. Cool backgroud people, pleasent atmosphere. A woman you would like to know in a town you'd like to live in