Major characters in the books include Rina's two sons by her late husband, Jacob and Samuel Lazarus Cindy Decker, Peter's daughter from his first marriage Rina and Peter's daughter Hannah Decker and Peter's police partner Detective Marge Dunn. At moments of anger and confrontation, though, his stepsons, Rina's children, sometimes call him 'Peter'. To his police colleagues, he remains 'Peter', 'Loo', 'Rabbi', or 'Old Man', but at moments of special intimacy and tenderness, Rina calls him 'Akivale'. Aside from 'Peter' - a name with obvious Christian origin and connotations - he has a Jewish name, 'Akiva' - the name of a famous ancient Jewish sage.

All the books in the series are rooted in, or at least include, Jewish themes. Decker, though raised Baptist by his adoptive parents in Florida, discovers as an adult that his birth parents were Jewish, which makes him Jewish under traditional Jewish law, as well. When he meets Rina, a young widow, during an investigation at a yeshiva in The Ritual Bath, he is compelled to explore the religion for himself, and eventually became a religiously observant Orthodox Jew. A lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Decker is assisted in solving crimes by his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus. Peter Decker is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by Faye Kellerman. Hannah Decker (daughter by second marriage) 14–40.Cindy Decker (daughter by first marriage) (1994) ‘The History of the Market’, Monthly Review, July–August, pp. (1994) ‘The Triumph of Financial Capital’, Monthly Review, June, pp.

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Das Finanzkapital by Peter Decker