Batya Gur, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (350p) ISBN 978-0-06-019026-2
Gur's third Israeli mystery thriller involving detective Michael Ohayon of the Serious Crimes Unit (following Literary Murder) is at least as much about the world of the kibbutz as it is about the murder of beautiful, headstrong kibbutz secretary...
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Batya Gur, Author, Dalya Bilu, Translator HarperCollins Publishers $20 (357p) ISBN 978-0-06-019023-1
As she did in her absorbing U.S. debut, The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case , Israeli writer Gur follows Michael Ohayon, Superintendent of Criminal Investigations in Jersusalem, on the trail of murder set within a small, tightly...
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Batya Gur, Author, Dalya Bilu, Translator Aaron Asher Books $20 (294p) ISBN 978-0-06-019024-8
With sly, affectionate humor and acute insight, this flawless mystery by an Israeli literature professor traces the parallel processes of police detection and psychoanalysis. Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon is called to the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic...
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Batya Gur, Author, Batya Goor, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (433p) ISBN 978-0-06-017268-8
The lives of classical musicians are the focus of the latest entry in Gur's admirable series featuring Israeli Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon (Murder on a Kibbutz, etc.). A divorc with one adult child, Michael is returning to work after a two-y
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Batya Gur, Author, Vivian Eden, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Vivian Eden. HarperCollins $24.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-06-019573-1
Israeli author Gur's outstanding police procedural, her fifth Michael Ohayon mystery (after 1998's Murder Duet
), can hold its own with the best work of P.D. James. Chief Superintendent Ohayon, a restrained and understated figure who will...
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Batya Gur, Author, Evan Fallenberg, Translator , trans. from the Hebrew by Evan Fallenberg. HarperCollins $24.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-06-085293-1
Gur's tremendous literary gifts are on full display in her sixth contemporary Israeli mystery to feature the understated but insightful Sephardic detective, Insp. Michael Ohayon (after 2005's Bethlehem Road Murder
). The death of set...
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