Perhaps because of the exoticness of thinking about an Israeli black genre, discovering Dror Mishani it is even more fascinating and addictive. As his works arrive in Spain, we will discover in all their magnitude an author from the other side of the Mediterranean who, in terms of scenography, at times recalls Markaris, but which also draws on the most current Nordic police crime. A mixture that, however, points more to its own wedge, to that imprint that has escaped us, and in the absence of national precedents of equal magnitude in noir, we try to equate here and there.
Mishani has her fetish persona, Inspector Abraham Abraham. But beyond the series with this protagonist, of which we still have to know several installments, Mishani lavishes on other plots where he probes different aspects of that criminal literature where he offers us dystopian glimpses hovering right now on us. Everything that moves around homicide has those strange notes of self-destruction of a species endowed with reason but capable of pulling it to pose the most ominous crimes ...
Top recommended novels of Dror Mishani
Cuban Tres Guitar
The vertices of a sentimental triangle always point to tragedy. In the angles there are three women. In the center, who hopes to have everything controlled around them, with the magnetism that worked for him on other occasions. But the angles can start to close and the interior space can become uninhabitable.
Tres is a surprising thriller about three women whose seemingly normal lives intersect in a deceptive emotional puzzle. Orna, a teacher in Tel Aviv and a divorced mother, has decided to forget her failed marriage and start a new life; Emilia, a caregiver recently arrived in Israel from Latvia, needs a job and a spiritual shelter in equal measure to keep her afloat; She, for her part, goes to a coffee shop every morning to finish her doctoral thesis, but, above all, to escape her monotonous family life. The fate of these three women will take a tragic turn the day Guil appears in their lives, a man who will soon make it clear that he is not who he claims to be. Although maybe neither ...
Dror Mishani burst onto the scene with Disappearance file, the first in a series of novels starring Inspector Abraham Abraham. On Three, the author abandons his detective to build, in the wake of great masters of suspense as Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, a delicate psychological intrigue starring women who rarely have the opportunity to be heard. Mishani leads us to the forgotten margins of Tel Aviv to tell us about the responsibility of observing the lives of those around us and about our positioning before the living and the dead, who, in one way or another, always remain among us.
Disappearance file
In the absence of more installments about Inspector Abraham Abraham, this story offers us the perfect introduction to the modus operandi of an investigator who faces cases full of suspense, plots where appearances make up that tangle in which the reader is trapped as a fly in the spider web, waiting to see the spider's legs appear with their bad news ...
A sixteen-year-old boy, Ofer, disappears without a trace after leaving his home in uptown Holon on his way to school. What seemed like a routine case becomes for Inspector Abraham Abraham a frustrating investigation that takes up his entire life. As he deepens his knowledge of the boy's life, the truth of what happened to him seems more hidden. Only one man, a neighbor and the boy's teacher, Zeev Avni, has something to say, something very strange that can save the investigation, if it is not too late.
