Batya Gur
Between 1971 and 1975 Batya lived in Greensboro, NC, where she taught Hebrew and Jewish studies to elementary students at the North Carolina Hebrew Academy at Greensboro (now called B'nai Shalom Day School).Before writing her first detective novel at the age of 39, she taught literature at the Hebrew University Secondary School.In every book in the series Michael Ohayon enters a closed world, an isolated society, with rules of its own (for example psychoanalysts, literary scholars in academia, or members of a kibbutz).By his fundamental approach and his inner understanding of human nature, Ohayon succeeds in breaking the ring of silence and solving the murder mystery on his way to the next book.Gur's crime novels were described as "less about the death of the body than...sustained, thoughtful explorations of the life of the mind.