Showing Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mystery (Michael Ohayon Mysteries) by Batya Gur

Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 08 Pages: 384 Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks The body of a young Yemeni woman is discovered in the attic of a Bethlehem Road house. In a Jerusalem neighborhood famous for its impenetrability to outsiders The the victim in once a beauty. is no longer lovely - her face has been utally smashed. More than the usual horror greets Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon in the closed and inscrutable Baka. for an old love and an unfinished romance await him there as well. But much more is concealed beneath the surface of this gruesome homicide - as tensions between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim. hostility between Arabs and Jews. the half-century-old business of kidnapped Yemenite children. and the al Aqsa Intifada of ...