In The Missing File, Israeli detective Avraham Avraham must find a teenage boy gone missing from the suburbs of Tel Aviv in this first volume in a fresh new literary crime series by D. A. Mishani.
Crimes in Avraham’s quiet suburb are generally not all that complex. But when a sixteen-year-old boy goes missing and a schoolteacher offers up a baffling complication, Avraham finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew about his life.
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A slow-burner with an original take on detection, The Missing File gradually builds momentum and reserves a surprise sting in its tail.
I'd have liked to see a stronger sense of place - the series is set in Israel and I would have loved to see more of the setting brought forward in the story, and even a tiny bit more about Avraham as a person would have been enough to interest me.
Publisher: Harper (March 19, 2013)
Format: EPUB
Page count: 304 pages
File size: 1.1 MB
Protection: DRM
Language: English
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