Lev Raphael, Author . Walker $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3365-8
In Raphael's disappointing fourth book featuring untenured professor and amateur detective Nick Hoffman, Juno Dromgoole, an English professor at the State University of Michigan, wants to find out who's been harassing her with anonymous...
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Lev Raphael, Author . Leapfrog $14.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-9679520-0-0
Raphael applies his talents as a suspense writer (he is the author of five mystery novels in addition to the short story collection Dancing on Tisha B'Av) to this unconventional Holocaust novel, a family drama about the upheaval caused by a...
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Lev Raphael, Author . Carroll & Graf $14.95 (166p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1649-4
I grew up in a minefield," writes Raphael movingly in the title essay in this collection of 11 short memoirs, referring to being a child of Holocaust survivors who never knew when he might "say or do the wrong thing." In just over 20...
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Lev Raphael, Author . Leapfrog $15.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-9728984-7-8
Michigan NPR commentator Raphael is the author of Little Miss Evil
and other mysteries; he also penned The German Money
and other "second generation" fiction centered on the children of Holocaust survivors; coauthored Coming Out of Shame
...
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Lev Raphael, Author . Perseverance $14.95 (211p) ISBN 978-1-880284-83-4
At the start of Raphael's entertaining seventh Nick Hoffman mystery (after 2004's Tropic of Murder
), the State University of Michigan English professor stumbles on a corpse in a steam room—Vlado Zamaria, the ruthless head trainer at...
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Lev Raphael, Author Walker & Company $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3326-9
If Nick Hoffman ever gets the tenure he craves at the State University of Michigan, the body count could be staggering. Raphael's latest is just the third in this bright series (after 1997's The Edith Wharton Murders), and already the campus is...
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Lev Raphael, Author Walker & Company $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3342-9
Professor Nick Hoffman's fall semester gets off to a rocky start in the fourth of Raphael's amusing academic mysteries (The Death of a Constant Lover, etc.). When arrogant, bestselling author Camille Cypriani, ""a cross between Anita Brookner and...
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Lev Raphael, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-312-04862-4
Tisha B'Av (the Ninth of the Hebrew month of Ab), which commemorates the destruction of both Jerusalem temples, is observed by fasting and public mourning. In the title story of Raphael's first collection, a gay student has been publicly humiliated...
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Lev Raphael, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-312-08338-0
This strongly affecting coming-of-age novel by the author of Dancing on Tisha B'Av concerns Stefan Borowski, the son of Polish Holocaust survivors living in Manhattan. Stefan spends his childhood in a hermetically sealed world created by his parents,
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Lev Raphael, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13999-5
The ivory tower looks a bit chipped in Raphael's portrayal of a state university set in the fictional town of Michiganapolis. Nick Hoffman has everything he has ever wanted: a teaching job, a nice house, a solid relationship with his lover, Stefan...
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Lev Raphael. Univ. of Wisconsin/Terrace, $26.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-299-30230-6
If most readers should be able early on to figure out the motive, if not the villain, in this novel, that doesn’t make Raphael’s eighth Nick Hoffman mystery (after 2007’s Hot Rocks) any less compelling. One warm May evening, police burst into the...
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Lev Raphael. Perseverance, $15.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-56474-609-2
In Raphael’s entertaining ninth mystery featuring literature professor Nick Hoffman, the campus of the State University of Michigan has finally settled down after the horrific violence of 2014’s Assault with a Deadly Lie, and Nick Hoffman and his...
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Lev Raphael. Perseverance, $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-56474-619-1
Raphael makes the most of the academic setting of his immensely enjoyable 10th mystery featuring Nick Hoffman, a literature professor at the State University of Michigan (after 2019’s State University of Murder). After reluctantly accepting an...
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