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In an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, the residents face turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and decisions. On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army friend with a troubled military past how his obsession about his young daughter's safety led him to lose control and put his marriage in peril. Above him lives Hani, whose husband travels the world for his lucrative...

"Agent 10483 carried out his missions perfectly. Too perfectly. When a top agent in the Israeli Organization receives a disturbing notebook written by the mysterious 10483, supposedly dead for years, he realizes that something went terribly wrong. Is 10483 a psychopath who outwitted his handlers for years? Or was he manipulated by his superiors to carry out the most monstrous assassinations in the history of the state of Israel? And why was he the...

Dr Eitan Green is a good man. He saves lives. Then, speeding along a deserted moonlit road in his SUV after an exhausting hospital shift, he hits someone. Seeing that the man, an African migrant, is beyond help, he flees the scene. It is a decision that changes everything. Because the dead man's wife knows what happened. And her price is not money. It is something else entirely. A gripping, suspenseful and morally devastating drama of guilt and survival,...

Chief Superintendent Ohayon, a restrained and understated figure who will remind many of James's Adam Dalgleish, investigates the brutal murder of an attractive young woman whose bludgeoned corpse is found by chance in the attic of a house undergoing renovation in Jerusalem's Baka neighborhood.

"In The Hug, internationally renowned author David Grossman tells the moving story of the moment when Ben realizes that no two living creatures are alike--not his mother and father, their beautiful dog Miracle or the ants who march side by side at his feet and appear identical--and the loneliness he feels knowing that there is no one else quite like him in the whole world. But just as he is feeling the most alone he has ever felt, he is soothed by...

Andrew P. Cohen, a professor of comparative culture at New York University, is at the zenith of his life. Adored by his classes, published in prestigious literary magazines, he is about to receive a coveted promotion the crowning achievement of an envious career. He is on excellent terms with Linda, his ex-wife, and his two grown children admire and adore him. His girlfriend, Ann Lee, a former student half is age, offers lively companionship. A man...

A debut collection of short stories that provide glimpses into contemporary Israeli life, including the tale of a scheming tech start-up executive whose ambition has dire consequences and an army platoon of the elderly looking for purpose.

After an African American boy dies at a house party from an apparent drug overdose, Lilach, when racial tensions in the community are ignited and her son Adam is implicated in the crime, begins to question everything she knows about him, wondering if her quiet, reclusive boy could be a killer.

"Throughout human history there have always been sorcerers, once idolised and now exploited for their powers. In Israel, the Sons of Simeon, a group of religious extremists, persecute sorcerers while the government turns a blind eye. After a march for equal rights ends in brutal murder, empath, modifier and reluctant waiter Reed becomes the next target. While his sorcerers and normie friends seek out his future killers, Reed complicates everything...