Batya Gur

Gur spins an intriguing mystery with international flavor and an attractive and likeable hero. When a revered senior analyst is found dead at the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Society headquarters, Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon penetrates the elite, mysterious world of the institute to find the killer.

Psychoanalytic Case, A

The Saturday Morning Murder

From the award-winning "Israeli Agatha Christie," a double murder case at an elite university leads a detective to uncover other kinds of injustices. In investigating the deaths of a professor of literature and his junior colleague, Superintendent Michael Ohayon raises profound ethical questions about the relationship between the artist and his creation, and between the artist and a moral code. It brings him into contact with the academic elite and reveals the social problems and differing perspectives of Israel's various classes. Batya Gur's The Literary Murder is a clever, compelling, and suspenseful mystery that will leave readers entertained up until the final, harrowing conclusion. "A complex mystery set in an unusual, well-developed milieu with a full cast of characters. The Literary Murder is literary multidimensional pleasure." — Publishers Weekly "This is a marvelous book, seductively engaging from beginning to end . . . intellectual pursuit is portrayed with vigor and grace." — Newsday "Gur, a professor of literature in Jerusalem, knows academia well, and she uses it as a foil to illustrate the social and cultural tensions that permeate Israeli life. At the same time, she tells a fine detective yarn, keeping her cards well hidden until the end, deftly setting up the reader for twists, turns, and surprises." — Booklist Michael Ohayon Mystery series Saturday Morning Murder (#1) The Literary Murder (#2) Murder on the Kibbutz (#3) Murder Duet (#4) Bethlehem Road Murder (#5) Murder in Jerusalem (#6)

The Literary Murder

El asesinato de la eminente psiquiatra Eva Neidorf poco antes de dar una conferencia, y la desaparición de todos los documentos personales de la fallecida, son los datos con los que deberá iniciar su trabajo de investigación el inteligente comisario Michael Ohayon, al que poco a poco el caso policiaco que investiga se le irá convirtiendo en un caso psicoanalítico tras seguir las pesquisas de los pacientes de la víctima. Con una intriga planteada diestramente y resuelta con maestría, El asesinato del sábado por la mañana (premio a la mejor novela policiaca en Alemania) ha sido probablemente la primera novela de misterio de un autor israelí que llegó a un público internacional. La crítica estadounidense, japonesa y europea ha coincidido al calificarla como una excelente novela policiaca cuya novedad reside en su escenario y en los personajes, que no olvidan reflejar las paradojas y tensiones particulares del Israel de nuestros días.

El asesinato del sábado por la mañana

El cadáver de una joven con la cara destrozada es encontrado en el desván de una casa situada en la carretera de Belén, en el barrio de Baqah de Jerusalén. El superintendente Michael Ohayon acaba de comprarse una nueva casa en ese barrio y, cuando se dirige a verla, es reclamado en el lugar del crimen. Allí le esperan un amor del pasado y un romance que nunca llegó a terminarse. Como en sus libros anteriores, Batya Gur presenta una investigación criminal compleja y cautivadora, que nos adentra en un mundo cerrado y con leyes propias. En este caso la acción transcurre en un barrio de Jerusalén en donde se condensa la realidad israelí en miniatura, una realidad cuyos resquicios Gur dibuja de forma prodigiosa al huir de ideas preconcebidas. A lo largo de la investigación, Michael Ohayon nos irá descubriendo poco a poco todo lo que se oculta tras la realidad más evidente.

Un caso pasional

Asesinato en el corazón de Jerusalén

Una madre hace saltar por los aires la tumba de su propio hijo. Éste murió durante el servicio militar, víctima de una macabra broma. En la tumba habían esculpido las usuales palabras anónimas que se emplean en estos casos: «Caído en acto de servicio». Pero la madre no lo acepta. En la tumba de su hijo tiene que ser grabada, bien visible para todos, la verdad: «Asesinado por sus superiores». Éste es el comienzo de una larga serie de desesperados intentos por parte de Rajel para que se haga justicia. Como en otras novelas de Batya Gur que no pertenecen a la serie policiaca de Michael Ohayon, por la que es conocida en España, se ponen al descubierto las contradicciones y el lado oscuro de la sociedad israelí.

Piedra por piedra

Michael Ohayon investigates a delicate murder case--the secretary of a kibbutz has been poisoned, and Ohayon must expose the deepest secrets of an egalitarian society

A Communal Case

Murder on a Kibbutz

When a woman's body is discovered in the wardrobe warehouses of Israel Television, brooding police superintendent Ohayon embarks on a tangled and bloody trail of detection through the corridors and studios of Israel's official television station and, espe

A Michael Ohayon Mystery

Murder in Jerusalem

In Gur's third mystery, clever, charming Israeli investigator Michael Ohayon, whom readers fell in love with in Saturday Morning Murder and Literary Murder, must once again put his skills to work to solve a murder, this time within the complex, closed society of a kibbutz.

Communal Case, A

The sixth and final novel from beloved and critically-acclaimed Israeli crime novelist Batya Gur—a stunning tale of a beautiful and secretive woman’s murder, set against the politically charged backdrop of the Israeli media Acclaimed Israeli director Benny Meyuhas’ film production of the heartbreaking work “Iddo and Eynam” promises to be a landmark of Israeli film—until his wife and the films’ set designer Tirzah Rubin is crushed under a set piece, stalling the production indefinitely. But more shocking is what comes to light in the investigation—that Tirzah’s storybook life wasn’t at all what it seemed, and that her death may have been part of a larger network of social and political unrest. The brooding Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon has spent his career surrounded by horrific crimes, but perhaps none most deeply disturbs him than Tirzah’s murder, its strange connection to Israeli labor disputes and religious corruption shaking him to the core. The crowning achievement to a magnificent career, this final installment in the Michael Ohayon series is a wonderful parting gift from the incomparable Batya Gur—one last fascinating visit to an always tumtultous land, in the company of a detective the author and her devoted readers have loved so well.

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