The Missing File

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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.

Told through alternating… (more)

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.

Told through alternating points of view, The Missing File is an emotionally wrought, character-driven page-turner with plenty of twists and turns. It’s a mystery that will leave readers questioning the notions of innocence and guilt, and the nebulous nature of truth.

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Fiction Mystery & Detective Israeli literature

Editorial reviews (2 reviews)

Euro Crime : Review: The Missing File by D A Mishani (June 13, 2013)

A slow-burner with an original take on detection, The Missing File gradually builds momentum and reserves a surprise sting in its tail.

No More Grumpy Bookseller : The Missing File by D.A. Mishani (April 03, 2013)

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.