The murder of Saturday morning

The Saturday morning murder is a detective novel by the Israeli writer Batya Gur (Tel Aviv, January 20, 1947 - May 19, 2005), published in Spanish in 1998 (Madrid, Siruela, 1998, 359 pages. English Translation: Maria Corniero. Review

"The murder of Saturday morning. An analytical case, "one morning at the end of winter, in the midst of the quiet of the Sabbath, Shlomo Gold discovers the corpse of respected Dr. Eva Neidorf at the Psychoanalytic Institute Deutsch in Jerusalem, where she later lectured on ethical and of psychoanalytic treatment. Michael Ohayon, who manages to solve the murder, uses his method of investigation that involves understanding the intellectual and emotional world of the people related to the case. This leads him to inquire into the laws of the Institute world, the process of psychoanalysis and the relations between patients and analysts. Faced with robberies, mentally ill and abuses of power, it ends up submerged in a closed structure where discretion and absolute reserve govern the work and behaviors of those involved. In Israel, based on his plot, a television film was made.

With a skillfully devised and masterfully devised intrigue, Saturday morning murder (the best detective novel award in Germany) was probably the first mystery novel by an Israeli author who reached an international audience. American, Japanese and European criticism has coincided in qualifying it as an excellent detective novel whose novelty lies in its setting and in the characters, who do not forget to reflect the peculiar paradoxes and tensions of the Israel of our days.

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