Robert Rosenberg Books In Order

Avram Cohen Books In Order

  1. Crimes of the City (1991)
  2. The Cutting Room (1993)
  3. House of Guilt (2000)
  4. An Accidental Murder (2002)

Novels

  1. Heart Lake (2004)

Non fiction

  1. Secret Soldier (1995)

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Crimes of the City

‘A superior thriller, very well written, sensitively and beautifully plotted.’ New York Times Book Review In a holy city, even saints can be suspects…
It was the time of the intifada, a season of hatred and fear in the city called Jerusalem, the City of Peace…
Criminal Investigations Department Commander Avram Cohen faces a terrible double murder of two Russian nuns, mother and daughter, members of the Russian Orthodox convent in Ein Kerem. The KGB baby sitter for the Red Russian mission in the Holy Land is embarrassed, the police are embarrassed, the Knesset is embarrassed even the Prime Minister exerts pressure for a quick solution…
‘The lessons that Robert Rosenberg learned covering the Jerusalem crime beat as a reporter have been put to excellent use in this intricate tale of murder and madness in that holiest of cities.’ Jonathan Kellerman Avram Cohen returns in House of Guilt 1 890208 41 8 $14. 95, originally published by Scribner. Journalist Rosenberg lives in Israel.

House of Guilt

Uneasy with his newly inherited wealth, cranky in unwanted retirement , former Jerusalem Police CID Chief Avram Cohen wants to be left alone to suffer. The new minister of police has other plans. Using emotional blackmail, he coerces Cohen into leading a search for the missing heir to the House of Levi Tsur banking house. The psychologically disturbed Simon had some peculiar haunts that take the veteran detective Cohen into Tel Aviv’s decadent nightlife, then out into Jewish settlements on the West Bank, into the Judean desert, and back to the dangerous underworld of Jewish extremists in Jerusalem. Cohen is tracking the missing man, but what he s really hunting is confirming evidence that the Jerusalem Syndrome, a condition he believes often lies behind acts of terrorism, is at work. It is Cohen s belief that neurotics who visit Jerusalem and confuse their identities with those of biblical characters or believe they receive messages from God cause havoc and got him into trouble with his own superiors. While his longtime lover Ahuva, a judge, tries to calm him, Cohen is brought face to face not only with the mystery of Simon Levi Tsur and his powerful family, but with his own past and present failures.

An Accidental Murder

‘OF ALL HIS MANY REGRETS, IT WAS HIS DECISION TO WRITE HIS MEMORIES THAT AVRAM COHEN NOW REGRETTED THE MOST’ Thus begins An Accidental Murder, the latest book in Robert Rosenberg’s acclaimed Avram Cohen mystery series. In a tale that takes the retired Jerusalem detective from Germany’s Frankfurt book fair to the Negev desert, as he searches for a murderer in Germany and ends up in the dark netherworld of the new Russian mafia in Israel, Avram Cohen is revealed as never before a man with a complex past that makes his future most uncertain. Someone wants to kill Cohen or so it seems possibly because of something he wrote in his memoir about his year as an avenger assassinating Na*zis after his long ago liberation from the Dachau concentration camp. But then his longtime protege Nissim Levy is found murdered on the road to Eilat. Is this a revenge killing somehow aimed at Cohen, or as Nissim’s former assistant believes, could the Russian mafioso be involved? From private nightclubs where mafia kingpins entertain with vodka drenched feasts to massage parlors where the women work with cold blooded professionalism, Cohen’s search for Levy’s killer becomes a twisted journey into a new side of Israel hardly known to the outsider. On the way, Cohen must look back at his own guilt before he can unveil a killer with a misguided but nonetheless profound motive for murder. This finely drawn novel is, like all the Cohen novels, a portrait of a deeply complicated man trying hard to be moral in a world where greed rules. Building an atmosphere of personal pain and paranoia up until the very last pages of the book, Rosenberg gives us a tour de force.

Secret Soldier

In this riveting autobiography, Colonel Muki Betser, Israel’s premier special warfare commander and counterterrorist for 25 years, recounts the inner workings of Israel’s elite forces which until now no high ranking military officer has been allowed to reveal. A natural leader, Betser counseled his country’s most eminent leaders Meir, Begin, Shamir, Rabin, then executed their most crucial missions.

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