Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten Years Gone | 2017 | Jonathan Dunsky | Buy |
| 2 | The Dead Sister | 2016 | Jonathan Dunsky | Buy |
| 3 | The Auschwitz Violinist | 2016 | Jonathan Dunsky | Buy |
| 4 | A Debt of Death | 2017 | Jonathan Dunsky | Buy |
| 5 | The Unlucky Woman | 2018 | Jonathan Dunsky | Buy |
| 6 | A Deadly Act | 2020 | Jonathan Dunsky | Buy |
| 7 | The Auschwitz Detective | 2020 | Jonathan Dunsky | Buy |
| 8 | A Death In Jerusalem | 2022 | Jonathan Dunsky | Buy |
| 9 | In That Sleep of Death | 2024 | Jonathan Dunsky | Buy |
| 10 | The Jewish Policeman | 2026 | Jonathan Dunsky | Buy |
The Adam Lapid Mysteries is a historical detective series set in the early years of the State of Israel. Adam Lapid is a private investigator in Tel Aviv who survived Auschwitz while his entire family did not. Haunted by nightmares and driven by a need to see justice done, he takes on cases the police overlook or abandon. The series begins with Ten Years Gone, in which Lapid is hired to find a missing boy and uncovers a decade-old double murder.
The books take place during a formative period in Israeli history, when the country was absorbing hundreds of thousands of immigrants and building its institutions from scratch. Dunsky uses this setting to explore themes of loss, displacement, and survival alongside the mystery plots. The sixth book, The Auschwitz Detective, is a prequel set in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, showing Lapid’s life before Israel. The series has grown to ten books, with the most recent, The Jewish Policeman, published in 2026.