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.
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With sly, affectionate humor and acute insight, this flawless mystery by an Israeli literature professor traces the parallel processes of police detection and psychoanalysis. Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon is called to the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Institute on a quiet Sabbath morning when Dr. Eva Neidorf, a highly respected senior analyst, is found dead of a gunshot shortly before she was to have given a lecture on ethical and forensic problems in psychoanalysis. As the intelligent, somewhat sorrowful Ohayon interviews the institute staff, its training analysts and candidates, Gur deftly and subtly inserts red herrings in her plot, at the same time investing her characters with remarkable depth and individuality. Ohayon's instinctive perceptiveness surfaces as Institute head Dr. Ernst Hildesheimer explains the grief and horror the murder has awakened in the analytic community--patients as well as practitioners. Following his investigation through Jerusalem's commercial district and into the ranks of the military as well, Ohayon exhibits the patience and attention to detail unclear what this is of an experienced analyst. A complex, fully satisfying resolution wraps up this masterful American debut.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Who shot eminent Jerusalem psychiatrist Eva Neidorf just before she was to deliver a Saturday morning lecture on ``Some Aspects of the Ethical and Forensic Problems Involved in Analytic Treatment''? Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon (a Moroccan former history student forced from the doctoral program at Cambridge into a marriage now ended in divorce) finds suspicion divided equally between Dr. Neidorf's colleagues--revered Ernst Hildesheimer; embittered Joe Linder; haughtily beautiful Dina Silver; conscientious young Shlomo Gold--and the mysterious patient who purloined her lecture notes, weekly schedule, and income-tax returns in order to conceal his (or her) existence. Mildly interesting psychiatric characters and background wrapped up in a ceremonious manner. Two sequels, already published in Israel, are bound to follow. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Analyzing a murder,
By booknblueslady (Woodland, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case (Michael Ohayon Mysteries, No. 1) (Paperback)
When 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 of the book and the mystery that remains is how Michael Ohayon will manage to snare the murderer. Gur's use of the setting and background information regarding Freudian psychology deftly adds to the interest of this book. Michael Ohayon is an interesting detective. He is a troubled, thoughtful man who could use some psychoanalysis himself. Ohayon is a complex creature who has the feel for solving crimes. This book is to be recommended especially to those who enjoy psychology and who have at least some background in the Freudian technique. Those readers who prefer fast paced reading should avoid the Saturday Morning Murder.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case (Michael Ohayon Mysteries, No. 1) (Paperback)
I always enjoy a good who-dunnnit, and "Saturday Morning Murder" was certainly enjoyable and well written. The main character and investigator, Michael Ohayon, isn't your usual take-charge and hunt-'em-down police detective. He takes a more intellectual approach to investigating the murder of a prominent Psychoanalytic Institute's most respected member. The reader can see the obvious (and in this case, ironic) parallels between psychoanalysis and police investigation. The depth to which the author is able to illuminate the art of psychotherapy and how its unique conditions contribute to the mystery of this murder is also fascinating and makes this story more than just your average murder mystery. This could be thought of as a thinking person's mystery -- there's very little gore or lurid descriptions of crime scenes, and no violent confrontational scenes you might find in Patricia Cornwell's or Jonathan Kellerman's writing. The horror of the crime and the necessity of figuring out who committed it is no less compelling, however. The book takes a slow start, introducing the characters in a philosophical/analytical style, but the complexity of the case and the implications of "whodunnit" were more than interesting enough to draw me in until the last page.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A good detective read,
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This review is from: The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case (Michael Ohayon Mysteries, No. 1) (Paperback)
Just 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 (see, for example, Cmndr Dalgliesh or Lord Peter or Marshal Guarnaccia or Commisario Brunetti, etc., etc; is Mr Darcy the prototype Ms hero?). The author offers a novel's eye-view of upper-middle-class, cosmopolitan Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Sharply written, this novel aims, patently, to instruct as well as to entertain. As usual, with the latter, the author succeeds.
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