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Book SynopsisIn Shimon Adaf''s Lost Detective Trilogy, what begins as conventional mystery becomes by degrees a brilliant deconstruction not just of genre but of our own search for meaning. Both profound and compulsively readable, these books demand to be devoured. Lavie Tidhar
At age thirty, Elish Ben Zaken has found himself in a life he never imagined. As a university student, Elish was an esteemed rock-music critic for local newspapers; now, disenchanted with an increasingly commercialized music scene, he has joined a private investigation agency where he is content to be a clerk of small human sinsa finder of stolen cars and wayward husbands. But when a disconcertingly amiable detective asks him to look into the suicide of an infamous philosophy professorand the police file contains an unexpected allusion to Dalia Shushan, a celebrated young rock singer whose recent murder remains unsolvedElish's natural curiosity is piqued. And when violence begins to dog the steps of his inve
