基本信息出版社：Harper Paperbacks
页码：416 页
出版日期：2007年08月
ISBN：0060852941
条形码：9780060852948
版本：Reprint
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Michael Ohayon Mysteries
外文书名：耶路撒冷谋杀: 总警司迈克尔之谜 (小说) (迈克尔之谜系列)

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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.

作者简介

Batya Gur (1947-2005) lived in Jerusalem, where she was a literary critic for Haaretz, Israel's most prestigious paper. She earned her master's in Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she also taught literature for nearly twenty years.

媒体推荐 From School Library Journal
Adult/High School—Tirzah Rubin, set designer for Israeli television, is found dead under a fallen marble pillar. Michael Ohayon, the quiet, introspective Chief Superintendent of the Israeli police, arrives on the scene to begin an investigation of what first appears to be an accident and soon becomes a crime. When the killing is followed by a second and then a third death at the studio, Ohayon and his staff delve further into the deeply intertwined lives of the victims and the other major players in this closely knit television family. Was the murderer's motive love, politics, or something else? The story is rich in the culture of modern-day Israel and gives a vivid depiction of the behind-the-scenes drama of a television station, including a masterfully written scene depicting the hour before airtime. The characters are well fleshed out, though American teens might find the Israeli names initially distracting. However, young adults will soon be drawn into the love entanglements, the multiple mysteries, and the everyday lives of people in a war-torn country so often in the news. Teachers of world history will want to include this title on reading lists of fiction about current world issues, and English teachers can add it to the list of accessible books by foreign authors.—Ellen Bell, Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist
The final Michael Ohayon novel from the supremely talented Gur, who died of cancer in May 2005, marks a premature but stirring conclusion to an outstanding crime series. As in the previous installments, murder again takes Israeli police superintendent Ohayon inside a closed society, where he must ferret out motive and killer from within a tightly knit group of people entangled by work, love, and jealousy. Past adventures have penetrated the worlds of kibbutzniks, scholars, psychologists, and musicians; here, it's life within the Israeli national television network that is rent asunder when a set designer is killed by a falling pillar. The apparent accident turns out to be something far different, and soon enough Ohayon must deal with multiple murders. Like P. D. James, Gur uses the closed-society frame to set up a world where conflict is decades old and--until violence finally erupts--kept far beneath the surface. Ohayon, a deeply introspective and profoundly melancholic man, sorts through the psychological undercurrents that drive his cases with great sensitivity, much in the manner of James' detective, Adam Dalgleish. And yet, finally, Ohayon is the more compelling character, perhaps because his own vulnerabilities are more apparent and especially because he must conduct his investigations and live his life in the cauldron of passion and emotion that is contemporary Israel. This series will be sorely missed by crime-fiction readers everywhere. Bill Ott
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Gur's tremendous literary gifts are on full display in her sixth contemporary Israeli mystery to feature the understated but insightful Sephardic detective, Insp. Michael Ohayon (after 2005's Bethlehem Road Murder). The death of set designer Tirzah Rubin, found beneath a fallen pillar on the set of a film adaptation of S.Y. Agnon's Iddo and Eynam, appears to be an accident, but later evidence that it was murder brings Ohayon and his team into the swirl of personalities and politics that make up the national TV station, Channel One. When a witness to Tirzah's final moments also dies, from an overdose of heart medicine while hospitalized, the pressure on Ohayon intensifies. Once again, Gur uses a classic whodunit plot to explore human passions and insecurities with a sophistication equal to that of P.D. James and other better known authors of psychological crime fiction. The concluding moral dilemma Ohayon faces would have been fascinating to follow in future inquiries that will, alas, go unwritten, as Gur died in 2005. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.




专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Gur's tremendous literary gifts are on full display in her sixth contemporary Israeli mystery to feature the understated but insightful Sephardic detective, Insp. Michael Ohayon (after 2005's Bethlehem Road Murder). The death of set designer Tirzah Rubin, found beneath a fallen pillar on the set of a film adaptation of S.Y. Agnon's Iddo and Eynam, appears to be an accident, but later evidence that it was murder brings Ohayon and his team into the swirl of personalities and politics that make up the national TV station, Channel One. When a witness to Tirzah's final moments also dies, from an overdose of heart medicine while hospitalized, the pressure on Ohayon intensifies. Once again, Gur uses a classic whodunit plot to explore human passions and insecurities with a sophistication equal to that of P.D. James and other better known authors of psychological crime fiction. The concluding moral dilemma Ohayon faces would have been fascinating to follow in future inquiries that will, alas, go unwritten, as Gur died in 2005. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From School Library Journal
Adult/High School—Tirzah Rubin, set designer for Israeli television, is found dead under a fallen marble pillar. Michael Ohayon, the quiet, introspective Chief Superintendent of the Israeli police, arrives on the scene to begin an investigation of what first appears to be an accident and soon becomes a crime. When the killing is followed by a second and then a third death at the studio, Ohayon and his staff delve further into the deeply intertwined lives of the victims and the other major players in this closely knit television family. Was the murderer's motive love, politics, or something else? The story is rich in the culture of modern-day Israel and gives a vivid depiction of the behind-the-scenes drama of a television station, including a masterfully written scene depicting the hour before airtime. The characters are well fleshed out, though American teens might find the Israeli names initially distracting. However, young adults will soon be drawn into the love entanglements, the multiple mysteries, and the everyday lives of people in a war-torn country so often in the news. Teachers of world history will want to include this title on reading lists of fiction about current world issues, and English teachers can add it to the list of accessible books by foreign authors.—Ellen Bell, Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist
The final Michael Ohayon novel from the supremely talented Gur, who died of cancer in May 2005, marks a premature but stirring conclusion to an outstanding crime series. As in the previous installments, murder again takes Israeli police superintendent Ohayon inside a closed society, where he must ferret out motive and killer from within a tightly knit group of people entangled by work, love, and jealousy. Past adventures have penetrated the worlds of kibbutzniks, scholars, psychologists, and musicians; here, it's life within the Israeli national television network that is rent asunder when a set designer is killed by a falling pillar. The apparent accident turns out to be something far different, and soon enough Ohayon must deal with multiple murders. Like P. D. James, Gur uses the closed-society frame to set up a world where conflict is decades old and--until violence finally erupts--kept far beneath the surface. Ohayon, a deeply introspective and profoundly melancholic man, sorts through the psychological undercurrents that drive his cases with great sensitivity, much in the manner of James' detective, Adam Dalgleish. And yet, finally, Ohayon is the more compelling character, perhaps because his own vulnerabilities are more apparent and especially because he must conduct his investigations and live his life in the cauldron of passion and emotion that is contemporary Israel. This series will be sorely missed by crime-fiction readers everywhere. Bill Ott
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.