Lev Raphael

A Nick Hoffman Mystery

1 - Let's Get Criminal (Mar-1996)
2 - The Edith Wharton Murders (Sep-1997)
3 - The Death of a Constant Lover (Apr-1999)
4 - Little Miss Evil (May-2000)
5 - Burning Down the House (Oct-2001)
6 - Tropic of Murder (Sep-2004)
7 - Hot Rocks (Apr-2007)

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice: The Jewess and the Gentile (Aug-2011)

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  Edith Wharton's Prisoners of Shame
  

  • Jun-1991
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  Dancing on Tisha B'av
  

  • Oct-1991
  • / General Fiction
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  Winter Eyes
  

  • Nov-1992
  • / General Fiction
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  A haunting and remarkable novel, Winter Eyes is a tale of family secrets, silence, relevation-and the hope for healing and change. A spell-binding achievement, Winter Eyes richly fulfills the promise Booklist saw when it hailed Dancing on Tisha B'...

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  Let's Get Criminal
  

  • Mar-1996
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Nick Hoffman Mystery - 1
  

  A tale of intrigue in academia involving homosexuals. It begins when a new man arrives at a university and obtains tenure despite lack of qualifications. When he is murdered, suspicion falls on a writer-in-residence on whom the man once did the dirty...

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  The Edith Wharton Murders
  

  • Sep-1997
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Nick Hoffman Mystery - 2
  

  An academic conference on Edith Wharton is already in trouble due to warring Wharton factions when the murder of lesbian writer Chloe DeVore makes things even more complicated, and gay professor Nick Hoffman must discover who killed her before everyt...

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  The Death of a Constant Lover
  

  • Apr-1999
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Nick Hoffman Mystery - 3
  

  He'd been warned to avoid trouble: Nick Hoffman's outspoken attitude and reputation for being in the wrong place at the wrong time had placed his career in jeopardy. But what trouble could be caused by eating lunch?It was his partner Stefan's idea th...

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  Little Miss Evil
  

  • May-2000
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Nick Hoffman Mystery - 4
  

  A Nick Hoffman / Academic Mystery, Book 4 - The fourth novel in the highly acclaimed series begins on a high note. It appears that Nick's career is finally moving in the right direction, and the celebrity that comes with solving murders has brought h...

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  Burning Down the House
  

  • Oct-2001
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Nick Hoffman Mystery - 5
  

  As his professional life brims with turmoil and departmental warfare, Nick Hoffman finds his personal life turning chaotic as well when he and Juno Dromgoole, the woman he is powerfully attracted to, become the victims of a malicious harrassment camp...

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  The German Money
  

  • Sep-2003
  • / Suspense
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  "Lev Raphael is a daring writer -- one who will not be -restrained by genre, but who tells his story with all the tools at his command. The German Money combines all of Raphael’s estimable talents, delivering an emotional thriller about a totally b...

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  Tropic of Murder
  

  • Sep-2004
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Nick Hoffman Mystery - 6
  

  A Nick Hoffman / Academic Mystery, Book 6 - It's winter, but academic madness is in full bloom at the State University of Michigan. Untenured professor Nick Hoffman is desperately trying to keep out of the way as three senior professors battle to be ...

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  Secret Anniversaries of the Heart
  

  • Jan-2006
  • / General Fiction
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  “The power of Raphael’s stories comes from his passion for telling the truth, however painful.” -- Hadassah Magazine“His characters are voices of reason, observers rather than judges. The prose is poetic, the sex scenes sweat with passion.”...

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  Hot Rocks
  

  • Apr-2007
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Nick Hoffman Mystery - 7
  

  When writing professor Nick Hoffman finds the corpse of a health club's head trainer in the steam room after a workout, he is determined to find the culprit, and he finds there is no shortage of suspects....

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  Rosedale In Love
  

  • May-2011
  • / Romance
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  Gilded Age New York as You've Never Seen ItIn the glittering world of money-mad 1905 New York City, Jewish financier Simon Rosedale plans to force his way into high society through marriage and has his eye on Lily Bart. One of the most beautiful wome...

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  Pride and Prejudice: The Jewess and the Gentile
  

  • Aug-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  

  Get Ready for Pride and Prejudice with Brisket!In this subtle mash-up, Lizzy Bennet's been transformed into an Anglo-Jew with a Jewish mother, some Jewish attitude, and lots to say about Mr. Darcy. And he's got some some serious attitude problems of...

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  The Vampyre of Gotham
  

  • Jun-2012
  • / Erotica
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  Assault with a Deadly Lie
  

  • Oct-2014
  • / Thriller
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  State University of Murder
  

  • Apr-2019
  • / Mystery
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  Still reeling from having escaped a mass shooting on campus, English professor Nick Hoffman finds himself on the receiving end of confessions by one colleague after another. All of them have good reason to hate the new department chair, Dr. Napoleon ...

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  Department of Death
  

  • Apr-2021
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  Years ago Nick Hoffman was given a position in the English Department at the State University of Michigan because SUM wanted to hire his partner as writer-in-residence, but now he's been unexpectedly installed by his dean as chairman of that departme...

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