Adam Lapid Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Ten Years Gone |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Dead Sister |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Auschwitz Violinist |
2016 |
Buy |
| A Debt of Death |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Unlucky Woman |
2018 |
Buy |
| A Deadly Act |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Auschwitz Detective |
2020 |
Buy |
| A Death In Jerusalem |
2022 |
Buy |
| In That Sleep of Death |
2024 |
Buy |
| The Jewish Policeman |
2026 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Favor |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Omission of Her Majesty’s History |
2016 |
Buy |
| Rabbi Shmuel vs. the Lizard Demon Queen |
2016 |
Buy |
| Family Ties |
2017 |
Buy |
| Grandma Rachel’s Ghosts |
2017 |
Buy |
| Tommy’s Touch |
2017 |
Buy |
| Shootout With Death |
2018 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Payback Girl |
2018 |
Buy |
Jonathan Dunsky is an Israeli author best known for the Adam Lapid mystery series. He lives in Israel with his wife and two sons. His first novels, The Dead Sister and The Auschwitz Violinist, were both published in 2016, and he has since expanded the Adam Lapid series to ten books.
The Adam Lapid mysteries are set in Israel during the late 1940s and 1950s, a period when the young state was absorbing waves of immigrants and dealing with the aftermath of the Holocaust. Dunsky’s protagonist is a Holocaust survivor and former Nazi hunter who works as a private investigator in Tel Aviv. The series has drawn comparisons to the classic hardboiled detectives of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, with Lapid navigating a city full of displaced people, political tensions, and buried secrets. Dunsky has also written standalone short fiction and the crime novel The Payback Girl.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Jonathan Dunsky written?
Jonathan Dunsky has written 18 books across 3 series.
What was Jonathan Dunsky's first book?
Jonathan Dunsky’s first book is Rabbi Shmuel vs. the Lizard Demon Queen, published in 2016.
What inspired the setting of the Adam Lapid mysteries?
Dunsky set the series in the early years of the State of Israel, a period rarely explored in mystery fiction. The 1940s and 1950s Israeli setting provides a backdrop of nation-building, post-war trauma, and social upheaval that gives the detective stories an unusual historical dimension.