D.A. Mishani's The Missing File
Since it's Passover, reading a mystery set in Tel Aviv felt appropriate--plus, I lived there for six months in college when I studied abroad, and it's nice to revisit it, if only through fiction. Anyway, the protagonist here is a detective whose hobby is reading crime novels and watching Law and Order and seeing where the detectives get it wrong (which is maybe a little ironic, as he's not that good of a detective/policeman, at least based on my own pop culture consumption). Now he's on the case of a missing teenage boy, which is complicated by the boy's English tutor, who's determined to insert himself into the investigation. I had mixed feelings about the mystery itself (and the serious incompetence of the main character, which was extremely frustrating), but really enjoyed the characters and setting, so probably will check out any further books in this series. B/B+.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book is available now.
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