Jane Berman's absorbing, fast-paced murder mystery takes place on an Orthodox kibbutz in Israel’s northern mountains.

Anti-Semitism and community ties complicate the case in the second installment of a Scandinavian series following Jewish detective Ariel Kafka of Helsinki's Violent Crimes Unit.

This book is an original for more than one reason. To begin with, it is a first-time English translation of a writer popular in Israel. And that writer,…

In Julia Dahl’s first book, Invisible City, her central character, Rebekah Roberts, was a stringer, a rookie reporter trying to establish a foothold in a New York tabloid.…