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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2016
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Adam Lapid Mystery

1 - Ten Years Gone (Jun-2017)
2 - The Dead Sister (Oct-2016)
3 - The Auschwitz Violinist (Dec-2016)
4 - A Debt of Death (Nov-2017)
5 - A Deadly Act (Feb-2020)
5.5 - The Unlucky Woman (Nov-2018)
6 - The Auschwitz Detective (Mar-2021)
7 - A Death in Jerusalem (Mar-2022)
8 - In That Sleep of Death (Aug-2024)

Book List in Order: 15 titles



  • Jealousy is dangerous.And so is greed.Paul and Mickey have been friends since childhood, but life has not treated them equally.Paul is a rich software developer. Mickey is a broke ex-con. Paul drives a Lexus. Mickey's car is a dented Ford pickup. Pau...



  • The Police Don't Want to Catch the Murderer. So He'll Have To.Private detective Adam Lapid has seen his share of death. He lost his family in Auschwitz. He survived the Holocaust. He nearly died in Israel's War of Independence.Now it is 1949, and A...



  • Professor Reginald Nelson Thackery is having a very bad day.His loyal secretary of many years, Mrs. Finnibottoms, has informed him that his book on the history of the greatest English monarchs has been printed without the chapter on Her Majesty the Q...



  • Death is not always what it seems. And neither is murder.Private investigator Adam Lapid was sure Yosef Kaplon was dead.The last time he saw him was in 1944, in Auschwitz. They were prisoners together in the same barracks. Then one day, without warni...



  • Mike has always had his cousin Jimmy's back. Ever since they were kids, stealing candy from a local store.As they got older, and the crimes got bigger, Mike even did time in prison for Jimmy.Now, Mike is a recently released ex-con, and he's determine...



  • Can the dead speak to us? And if they can, will we listen?Jacob was five the first time he saw them, the two strange women in Grandma Rachel's kitchen. They appeared suddenly, from thin air.It was summer and scorching hot, but the two women wore old-...



  • On the dusty streets of post-war Tel Aviv, a crafty killer roams free…Israel, 1949 - Private detective Adam Lapid knows how it feels to lose everything. His whole family died in Auschwitz. He barely survived. Now he spends his nights haunted by...



  • Would you risk your life to avenge a murdered friend?Israel, 1951 - When private detective Adam Lapid finds Nathan Frankel dead in the street, he makes a quick decision: He'll discover who murdered Nathan and punish the killer himself....



  • How did she get here?And why does she hurt so bad?When Amber-May regains consciousness in the woods, she doesn't remember what happened to her. Once she discovers the truth, she makes a firm decision......she wants those who hurt her to pay for their...






  • The prisoner in Sheriff Cook's jail has a warning.Something is coming to the town of Roseshade. Something evil and ancient and deadly.But there is something more, too. There is something mysterious about this prisoner, something in his eyes that sugg...



  • She wants to know the truth. She may live to regret it.Hilda Lipkind is sure her husband is cheating on her. So she hires private detective Adam Lapid to find out with whom.Adam expects this to be a short, ordinary investigation.Both he and his clien...



  • What if you suspected your husband of murder?Israel, 1951: Private investigator Adam Lapid has never had a case like this.Five years before, his client lied to the police, giving a false alibi for her husband. Now, she's sure he committed murder...



  • The boy was murdered in Auschwitz. The killer isn't a Nazi.Poland, 1944: Adam Lapid used to be a police detective. Now he's a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.Reduced to a slave after losing his family in the gas chambers, Adam strugg...



  • He knows who did the killing. Now he needs to figure out why.Israel, 1952 – Private detective Adam Lapid tries to do the right thing. He may end up in prison because of it.To stay free, Adam must work for a man he hates. The case is unusual. Th...



  • Not even murder can keep this secret buried. Israel, 1952 – A man lies dead in a city park, his head bashed in. No witnesses. No clues.It seems like an impossible case. The police have given up. But private investigator Adam Lapid is deter...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jonathan Dunsky has published 15 books.

Jonathan Dunsky does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, In That Sleep of Death, was published in August 2024.

The first book by Jonathan Dunsky, The Dead Sister, was published in October 2016.

Yes. Jonathan Dunsky has 1 series.