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# The Dead Sister (Adam Lapid Mysteries Book 2)

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## Customer Reviews

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    The line separating good and evil runs through every human heart--Arab and Israeli
  

*by G***D on Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2018*

“I knew he was an Arab the moment I saw him.” With these words, Jonathan Dunsky opens The Dead Sister, the second in a series of mysteries featuring Adam Lapid. They are pregnant with meaning, given that the story takes place in Tel Aviv in October 1949.On May 14, 1948, Israel had declared independence. The next day, five Arab nations declared war on Israel, vowing to fight with and on behalf of Palestinian Arabs in order to erase the Jewish state. A U.N.-sponsored armistice ended the war on March 10, 1949.In the aftermath of the war, approximately 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were displaced from their homes, an event they memorialize to this day as the Nakba (“Disaster”). A slightly larger group of Jews were expelled from their ancestral homes in the Middle East, most of them settling in Israel. Tensions continued to run high between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, many of whom had literally fought one another just months earlier.So when Ahmed Jamalka asks Adam Lapid to solve the mystery of his sister’s murder, it’s not a foregone conclusion that Lapid will take the case. They had fought on opposite sides of the recent war, after all. But the case has languished in the hands of Tel Aviv police, who think the woman’s death is an honor killing. But larger forces are at work, and Lapid’s sense of justice drives him to follow the clues wherever they lead, whatever forces they offend.And in the end, we discover, as Solzhenitsyn so famously put it: “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts.” Arab and Israeli.

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    A grabber of a good story
  

*by G***G on Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2019*

It’s not every day that a man who was fighting to destroy you a year ago asks you to help find who killed his sister. Private investigator Adam Lapid, who had fought heroically in Israel’s War for Independence in 1947-48, is confronted with that request. So much for enjoying your coffee at Greta’s Café in downtown Tel Aviv.The client is an Arab; the police suspect his older brothers may have killed the young woman as part of the family’s honor code. She had fallen in love with a Christian, who was more instrested in a short-term fling. The brothers likely killed the Christian but have adamantly denied killing their sister, since someone got to her before they could. Lapid undertakes the job, and soon finds himself dodging pimps and the henchmen; low-life types who haunt seedy hotels; threatening police officers; and his own nightmares about Auschwitz, where his wife, children, and family died in 1944.“The Dead Sister” is the second novel in the Adam Lapid mystery series by Israeli author Jonathan Dunsky. It’s a fast-paced, action-packed novel, and a fine example of the mystery sub-genre of Israeli noir. Dunsky advances Lapid’s personal story as well, and we learn about what happened at Auschwitz (to his family and himself) and how it’s left him a man fundamentally broken.In “The Dead Sister,” Dunsky tells a grabber of a good story, mixing period politics, the violence of organized crime, and a private detective who still can’t come to terms with the loss of his family in the Holocaust. The novel also raises the question of law and justice, and what can happen when the law can’t stretch far enough to ensure justice.

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    Second gear... The Dead Sister
  

*by R***6 on Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2021*

Excellent. It’s a little like a friend who got a new car then asks you to take it for a spin. So you start it up And you’re off. Almost immediately, as you are swept along, you realize this is something very special. Well crafted, rawly exotic, immersive, and it’s only first gear. Then you shift into second and what had been promising in the first is realized in the second. You are swiftly propelled more smoothly, more efficiently, into a culture and time in history that are as complex and intriguing as the environment and characters that form the flesh of this excellent second in the series.I think it won’t take a week........

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