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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 892.436 EAN: 9780060995089 ISBN: 0060995084 Label: HarperPerennial Manufacturer: HarperPerennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: November 30, 1993 Publisher: HarperPerennial Release Date: November 30, 1993 Studio: HarperPerennial Editorial Review: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - wonderful and rare slice of israeli lifeThe Saturday Morning Murder was recommended to me by a psychoanalyst friend and I cannot thank him enough for turning me on to a whole series of novels by a writer who deserves to be far better known. I do not generally read detective stories. But I found that Batya Gur is an impeccable writer whose eye and ear are attuned to the nuances of general human behavior and the sociology of Israeli life in Jerusalem in particular. I could not put this book down and I plan to read through everything this ... Read More Rating: - Witty, perceptive, and full of atmosphereThis is Batya Gur's best book in my opinion. The atmosphere and locale are wonderfully well-drawn, as are the characters. This book truly communicates a time and place. The tensions and dilemmas of life in Israel at that time, the histories that each of the characters bring with them to the story are rich and convincing. Rating: - A good detective readJust sent this novel to some shrink friends. As usual, the author offers crisp narrative (well rendered by a supple translation), a panorama of vivdly drawn characters, a strong sense of time and place (O Jerusalem!), and a plot of decent complication. As well, there are the author's usual faults: a somewhat pretentious detailing of the rituals and nomenclature of a heuristic community; and, as with all women authors (yes!!) of detective stories, she adores her hero, who is much too good to be true ... Read More Rating: - Analyzing a murderWhen Shlomo Gold finds his mentor well known psycho analyst Eva Neidorf, dead early one Saturday morning in Jerusalem, detective Michael Ohayon begins his search for the murderer. Batya Gur meticulously lays out the clues while providing the reader with information about Freudian psychoanalysis. Gur's writing is not the fast paced mystery that some prefer, it slowly draws the reader to the conclusion. providing little steps along the way. She does give away the culprit before the end ... Read More Rating:  - 294 Pages of Mind Numbing ProseI admire anyone who can write a novel. I greatly admire anyone who can get a novel published. In the case of this book, I admire myself for reading this novel, to the end, no less! The beginning would have you believe that something, anything is going to happen, and it does! A woman is murdered. The mystery here does not lie in finding out who murdered her, but in when the author intends to acknowledge that she is writing a murder mystery. In page after page, after page . . . one reads of the training ... Read More |
