Product Description

Gur spins an intriguing mystery with international flavor and an attractive and likeable hero. When a revered senior analyst is found dead at the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Society headquarters, Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon penetrates the elite, mysterious world of the institute to find the killer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #159853 in Books
• Published on: 1993-10-28
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .72" h x 5.26" w x 8.01" l, .58 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From Publishers Weekly
With sly, affectionate humor and acute insight, this flawless mystery by an Israeli literature professor traces the parallel processes of police detection and psychoanalysis. Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon is called to the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Institute on a quiet Sabbath morning when Dr. Eva Neidorf, a highly respected senior analyst, is found dead of a gunshot shortly before she was to have given a lecture on ethical and forensic problems in psychoanalysis. As the intelligent, somewhat sorrowful Ohayon interviews the institute staff, its training analysts and candidates, Gur deftly and subtly inserts red herrings in her plot, at the same time investing her characters with remarkable depth and individuality. Ohayon's instinctive perceptiveness surfaces as Institute head Dr. Ernst Hildesheimer explains the grief and horror the murder has awakened in the analytic community--patients as well as practitioners. Following his investigation through Jerusalem's commercial district and into the ranks of the military as well, Ohayon exhibits the patience and attention to detail unclear what this is of an experienced analyst. A complex, fully satisfying resolution wraps up this masterful American debut.
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From Kirkus Reviews
Who shot eminent Jerusalem psychiatrist Eva Neidorf just before she was to deliver a Saturday morning lecture on ``Some Aspects of the Ethical and Forensic Problems Involved in Analytic Treatment''? Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon (a Moroccan former history student forced from the doctoral program at Cambridge into a marriage now ended in divorce) finds suspicion divided equally between Dr. Neidorf's colleagues--revered Ernst Hildesheimer; embittered Joe Linder; haughtily beautiful Dina Silver; conscientious young Shlomo Gold--and the mysterious patient who purloined her lecture notes, weekly schedule, and income-tax returns in order to conceal his (or her) existence. Mildly interesting psychiatric characters and background wrapped up in a ceremonious manner. Two sequels, already published in Israel, are bound to follow. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Gur spins an intriguing mystery with international flavor and an attractive and likeable hero. When a revered senior analyst is found dead at the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Society headquarters, Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon penetrates the elite, mysterious world of the institute to find the killer.