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Bethlehem Road murder : a Michael Ohayon mystery / Batya Gur ; translated by Vivian Eden.

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HarperCollins, c2004.

Police -- Israel -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Jerusalem -- Fiction.

Israel -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Gur, Batya. Michael Ohayon mysteries ; 5.

356 p. ; 23 cm.

"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."--Inside jacket.

Mystery fiction.

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