A review by guiltyfeat
The Missing File by D.A. Mishani

4.0

Odd coincidence. One day after ordering the first two books in this series, I met the author. I told him I was looking forward to reading his books and now that I have I'm happy that say that his debut is a cracker. Clearly self-aware our Israeli detective explains in the opening chapter why there is no history of Israeli crime fiction, "There's simply no mystery here. The explanation is always the simplest." What follows is a cerebral procedural that deliberately wrongfoots the reader more than once. Nothing is quite what it seems and nobody including the two POV characters is quite as instantly categorizable as they first appear. Properly good.