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Death isn't always what it seems. And neither is murder.

Private investigator Adam Lapid was sure Yosef Kaplon was dead.

The last time Adam saw him was in Auschwitz. They were prisoners together in the same barracks. Then one day, without warning, Yosef Kaplon was gone.

Now, in August 1950, Adam runs into Kaplon on a street corner in Tel Aviv, Israel. Soon after, Kaplon is found dead in his apartment.

The police say it was suicide, but Adam Lapid is not so sure. Something doesn't feel right about Kaplon's death.

Download The Auschwitz Violinist Adam Lapid Mysteries Jonathan Dunsky 9781540825728 Books

"This is the third novel in the Adam Lapid series. Intrigue, revenge, justice, remorse, guilt -- all wrapped up in a very readable, believable story that manages to capture the horrors and cruelty suffered in camps like Auschwitz and yet displays the indomitable human spirit. Made me cry and cringe, but I couldn't put the book down!"

Product details Series Adam Lapid Mysteries (Book 3) Paperback 230 pages Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (December 6, 2016) Language English ISBN-10 1540825728

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The Auschwitz Violinist Adam Lapid Mysteries Jonathan Dunsky 9781540825728 Books Reviews

• When a man greets Adam Lapid on the streets of Tel Aviv, Lapid recognizes him as a fellow prisoner at Auschwitz named Yosef Kaplon. A few days later, Kaplon slits his wrists and a friend asks Lapid to figure out why. His investigation opens a window on Holocaust survivors, collaboration, and vengeance.
  
  Before the 1961 Adolf Eichmann trial, many Israelis poorly understood the experience of European Jews who had survived the Shoah, and the survivors rarely spoke about their experiences.
  
  Some Israelis—sabras, “natives”—felt that European Jews had been too weak and compliant in the face of oppression. The “new Zionist man” would show the world that Jews couldn’t be pushed around. Survivors felt differently, of course. There had been little they could do, and there were few Gentiles willing to help.
  
  After the war, radicals began targeting Nazi officers and camp guards for assassination because the Allies were doing relatively little to bring the perpetrators of genocide to justice. This the background leading up to the Mossad’s capture of Eichmann in 1960. The radicals also took a dim view of European Jews whom they felt had collaborated with the enemy the Judenrat (ghetto police), Kapos (concentration camp supervisors), even musicians forced to play in camp orchestras.
  
  Dunsky uses this mix of survival, collaboration, and vengeance as the background to The Auschwitz Violinist, which is the third Adam Lapid novel. On the whole, he does a good job. I will note, however, that when Dunsky introduced a particular character in particular, I had a premonition he would turn out to be the bad guy. And I was right. I can’t say whether this was because I have read too many mysteries or because Dunsky telegraphed the ending unwittingly. Probably the former.
  
  So, three stars for The Auschwitz Violinist from me, but it’s still a page-turner, and I look forward to the fourth novel in the series.
• If I loved all the Adam Lapid books, this one triggered a lot of thoughts in me.
  
  It made it clear that the Jewish world is a kaleidoscope. I knew this of course,but to know and to realise are different things. this book gives us a magistral lesson in history and human reactions to horror and to the victims of horror. I met many different Jews in my 73 years on this earth, in France, Canada, Australia, the US and of course Israel, some even in india. I was most fascinated by those I met as a kid, who had gone through the October revolution in Russia, escaped to Paris, had to flee to Spain or Cuba or the US or ended up in camps during WWII, some who survived came back to Paris. Reading this book makes me understand much better the way these old guys reacted to my naive questions about these numbers on
  their arm. And also why some of my friends who were relatives of those with numbers on their arm clammed up when I enquired. There is more to it but this is not the place to elaborate. the point is that we deal with a book that goes well beyond being a detective story, it has as I pointed out historical value, as well as psychological insight. With all due respect for Agatha Christie, Simenon and others, this book has another dimension. Of course one can ignore it and appreciate only the "who dunnit aspect" which is sdufficiwent by itself to make this bvook a great detective story.
• This is the third novel in the Adam Lapid series. Intrigue, revenge, justice, remorse, guilt -- all wrapped up in a very readable, believable story that manages to capture the horrors and cruelty suffered in camps like Auschwitz and yet displays the indomitable human spirit. Made me cry and cringe, but I couldn't put the book down!
• It’s a chance meeting. Private investigator Adam Lipid bumps into a man he knew at Auschwitz, a violinist who played in the orchestra the Nazis had at the death camp. It’s Tel Aviv, 1950, and it’s not unusual to see people you once assumed had been murdered in the camps.
  
  The violinist invites Adam to hear a performance he’s given at a bar, and Adam goes. The music is haunting, not only for Adam but for the other patrons as well. Afterward, they part, with a promise to getting together again.
  
  And then Adam finds out that, when he arrived home, the violinist committed suicide. The bar owner asks Adam to look into it, because the idea of suicide makes no sense in this case. As Adam starts, everything points to suicide. Only it points two well to suicide. Adam finds a letter in the man’s mailbox from a friend in Jerusalem. He visits there, only to learn that the friend had also committed suicide. And the friend had also been a musician in the Auschwitz orchestra.
  
  It turns out to be murder. Two, in fact. And then Adam finds a third.
  
  “The Auschwitz Violinist” by Israeli writer Jonathan Dunsky is the third in the Adam Lipid detective series, and it’s a dandy story. Dunsky combines Israeli modern history, the horrors of the Holocaust, and a hardboiled cynical detective hero to create a story and a series that are riveting and difficult to put down (I failed to put it down, reading it straight through).
  
  The four Adam Lapid mysteries are “Ten Years Gone;” “The Dead Sister;” “The Auschwitz Violinist;” and “A Debt of Death.” He’s also published “The Favor A Tale of Friendship and Murder;” “Grandma Rachel’s Ghosts;” “Family Ties;” “Tommy’s Touch A Fantasy Love Story;” and other works. He was born in Israel, served four years in the Israeli Army, lived in Europe for several years, and currently lives in Israel with his family. He has worked in various high-tech firms and operated his own search optimization business.
  
  Reading “The Auschwitz Violinist” has further confirmed me as an Adam Lipid fan. My problem is that I read them faster than Dunsky can write them.
• I discovered this author quite by accident in one of the newsletters I receive. Serendipity! I was immediately hooked. I’ve since read two of his other books and will read however more there are. Set in the early years of Israel this is noir at its best. The author hooks the reader right in and does not let go until the very end. I highly recommend this book and this author.