Three old friends seek to address a crisis of faith by attending an interfaith conference of the world's three great monotheistic religions. Among leading Christians, Muslims and Jews, they find meaning, romance and violence on a biblical scale.

An engaging religious polemic wrapped in the familiar mantel of a murder mystery, "No Gods Before Me: The First of the Commandment Mysteries," is imbued with the most relevant Biblical and Quranic verses, revealing the scriptural roots of the current world conflict.

Respectfully and intelligently representing the views of humanists and...