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Literary Murder

A shocking double murder at Israel's top academic institution brings Superintendent Michael Ohayon to the scene to probe the nature of creativity and unravel the mystery. "A complex mystery set in an unusual, well-developed milieu with a full cast of multidimensional characters".--Los Angeles Times

Murder Duet

Everyone that knows Michael Ohayon is surprised at his career path. A music aficionado, Ohayon enjoys the finer things in life. But there is no mistaking the fact that he is a top-notch police officer. When his cellist friend's father and brother are murdered, Ohayon is the investigating officer. What he soon uncovers is an unknown Vivaldi requiem that is the perfect motive for murder. In Murder Duet: A Musical Case, Ohayon must solve a case that even his friend is a suspect in.

Murder In Jerusalem: A Michael Ohayon Mystery: A Michael Ohayon Mystery

When a woman's body is discovered in the wardrobe warehouses of Israel Television, Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon embarks on a tangled and bloody trail of detection through the corridors and studios of Israel's official television station, and through the fears, loves, and contradictions of the people who work there. It is an eye-opening journey that brings into question the very ideals upon which Ohayon-and indeed the entire nation-was raised, ideals that may have led to terrible crimes.

Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mystery: A Michael Ohayon Mystery

The body of a young Yemeni woman is discovered in the attic of a Bethlehem Road house, in a Jerusalem neighborhood famous for its impenetrability to outsiders. The victim, once a beauty, is no longer lovely -- her face has been brutally smashed.

More than the usual horror greets Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon in the closed and inscrutable Baka, for an old love and an unfinished romance await him there as well. But much more is concealed beneath the surface of this gruesome homicide -- as tensions between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, hostility between Arabs and Jews, the half-century-old business of kidnapped Yemenite children, and the al Aqsa Intifada of 2000 add fuel to a terrible fire that might never be contained.

Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mystery

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Internationally acclaimed author Batya Gur is known for her psychologically astute mysteries set in Israel and for the brooding and attractive Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon they feature. In her latest novel, the body of a young woman is discovered in the attic of a Bethlehem Road house, in a neighborhood of Jerusalem known for its impenetrability to outsiders. Chief Superintendent Ohayon is called to the scene of the crime, where, beyond the usual horror, an old love and an unfinished romance await him.

In the style that has made Batya Gur an author who is read the world over, Bethlehem Road Murder spins out a complex and fascinating murder investigation set in a Jerusalem neighborhood that encapsulates the entire Israeli experience in miniature. This closed world with rules and a logic of its own is one in which each character has a secret he or she is struggling to hide.

Chief Superintendent Ohayon''s criminal investigation is conducted against the backdrop of tensions between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, hostility between Jews and Arabs, the affair of the kidnapped Yemenite children, and the al Aqsa Intifada. During the course of the investigation Michael Ohayon uncovers what is concealed beneath the surface reality, and in so doing, powerfully and dramatically reveals the subtext of Israeli society today.

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Murder Duet: A Musical Case

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Israeli policeman and lover of classical music Michael Ohayon attempts to track down the murderer of two musicians, the brother and father of a friend of Ohayon, who has a sheet of music as the only clue to the motive