Faith, Fiction, Friends

Before Adam Lapid had been a private detective living in early 1950s Tel Aviv, he’d been a police detective in Budapest, Hungary. Then the G...

I can’t make up my mind here. Is   In that Sleep of Death , the latest Adam Lapid story by Israeli author   Jonathan Dunsky , a mystery or a...

In 1952, a debate was held in Israel’s parliament the Knesset on a rather shocking proposal – for Israel to begin negotiations with Germany ...

It’s 1951 Tel Aviv. Israel’s War for Independence is four years past, and the Holocaust of World War II a few years older, but both eve...

Private detective Adam Lapid takes most of his meals at Greta’s Café in Tel Aviv. It is 1950, and rationing – and the black market – ar...

It’s a chance meeting. Private investigator Adam Lapid bumps into a man he knew at Auschwitz, a violinist who played in the orchestra t...

It’s not every day that a man who was fighting to destroy you a year ago asks you to help find who killed his sister. Private investiga...

Israel Noir.  It may be a new mystery sub-genre. D.A. Mishani  has his Avraham Avraham police detective novels, set in contempo...