Batya Gur (Tel Aviv, 1947-Jerusalem, 2005) received a doctorate in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a city where she was a professor for more than twenty years and collaborated as a literary critic and essayist in the Haaretz newspaper. In 1988 he began his popular police series of six novels starring Commissioner Michael Ohayon, a cultured, lonely and charming detective who is characterized by breaking the pacts of silence of the different closed communities (psychoanalysts or members of a kibbutz, for example) in the ones investigating a crime. These novels have become true bestsellers and classics of the genre in Europe, Japan and the United States, where they have been included in The New York Times Book Review's list of the best detective novels. Editions Siruela has published by this author, among others: A literary murder, A musical murder, Murder in the kibbutz, Murder in the heart of Jerusalem, Live murder, I did not imagine it that way and Stone by stone.