Bøker av Libi Astaire

Barnet Court's connoisseurs of crime are back! Join retired Jewish detectives Herschel Perlow, Miss Janice Eppel, Ronny and Rubles Bernfeld, and author Agatha Krinsky as they tackle new mysteries to solve in this humorous, Passover-themed homage to Dame Agatha Christie. Included are these three novellas: Dying for Chametz: Barnet Court is all abuzz when it's announced that Claudette Kelly, a film star from the Golden Age of Hollywood, will be filming an interview at the home a few weeks before Passover. But the event takes an unexpected turn when the star is found in a chametz closet, murdered. Deceit on the Nile: What could be more charming and relaxing than a cruise down the Nile? Unfortunately, the vacation quickly turns vexatious when the Ten Plagues become the weapon of choice for someone bent on revenge. A Murderer Is Denounced: A mock Seder is the unusual setting for a settling of accounts involving a murder dating back to World War II.

Sometimes the hardest dragon to slay is the one inside you. When Theo-a social misfit with a passion for music-is rejected from a top music school, he feels like he has nothing left to live for. His awful day gets even worse when he falls into Everby, a "Post-Catastrophe" kingdom where hope and happiness are banished in a cynical struggle for wealth and power. Very soon, Theo unwillingly gets caught up in the court intrigues surrounding the upcoming marriage of Everby's Prince Rodepho to Princess Dora, an idealistic young woman desperate to escape from her unhappy fate. The princess thinks she has found a kindred soul in Theo, but he knows he's no storybook hero-until tragedy forces him to realize that in Everby there are only two options: Die or dare to dream again.

Who was the New World's first Jewish author? Why did some medieval moneylenders cover their hair? Which Jewish woman became queen of a North African people? What's the truth about the story that claims Hebrew almost became the official language of the United States? And who was one of the most daring heroes of the Holocaust that you've never heard of?Join journalist and historical novelist Libi Astaire for a journey down some of the less-traveled - but fascinating - roads of the Jewish past.

Daniel Lamm wants to be somebody in the worst way. He therefore takes up boxing to achieve his dreams of fame and fortune. But when a journalist who ridiculed Daniel in the press is found murdered, Daniel becomes the obvious suspect and a different fight begins - the fight to find the real culprit and prove Daniel's innocence. Fancy's Favorite is the seventh book in the Jewish Regency Mystery series, a refreshingly different look at Regency England which combines lovably quirky characters with a generous dash of humor.

If you love great stories about our Jewish Sages, this book is for you! In these pages you'll meet the Baal Shem Tov, the Chofetz Chaim, Rav Zusha of Hanipoli, and many others who understood there is no such thing as an unimportant person or action. Every day we have opportunities to become better - and even extraordinary - people. With these inspiring and entertaining stories to guide you, you'll learn how to spot these opportunities too.

There's trouble afoot in Regency London's Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimes-until wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair: General Well'ngone and the Earl of Gravel Lane, the leaders of a gang of young Jewish pickpockets. David Salomon, a young violinist and composer, has left New York to find fame and fortune in Regency London. But disaster strikes not long after he arrives. A mysterious rival composer is stealing his compositions and having them performed to great acclaim - and when David tries to protest that he is the music's true creator, he becomes the laughingstock of the beau monde he had hoped to conquer. With few friends and even fewer resources, the desperate Mr. Salomon turns to Ezra Melamed for help with discovering the identity of his shadowy foe. But the deeper Mr. Melamed looks into the violinist's story the more jarring notes he finds, making The Doppelganger's Dance one of the most discomposing mysteries of his career. The Doppelganger's Dance is the second book in the Jewish Regency Mystery series, a refreshingly different look at Regency England which combines lovably quirky characters with a generous dash of humor.