Books

The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case
Dance Hall of the Dead
The Dark Wind
A Thief of Time
Skinwalkers
Murder on the Orient Express
The Seven Dials Mystery
Postern of Fate
Crooked House
Ordeal by Innocence
The Clocks
Cat Among the Pigeons
The Mirror Crack'd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Poirot Investigates
Curtain
Dead Man's Folly
Death Comes As the End
Murder Is Easy
Funerals Are Fatal
Hickory Dickory Dock
A Holiday for Murder
Mousetrap and Other Plays
Mrs McGinty's Dead
Murder with Mirrors

The Saturday Morning Murder: Psychoanalytic Case, A

Average customer rating:

Witty, perceptive, and full of atmosphere
A good detective read
Analyzing a murder
294 Pages of Mind Numbing Prose
Intelligent Murder Mystery

The Saturday Morning Murder: Psychoanalytic Case, A
Batya Gur
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Jewish | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

General | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Fiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books

Look Inside Mystery & Thriller Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
Similar Items:

Literary Murder
Murder on a Kibbutz: Communal Case, A
Murder Duet: A Musical Case
Murder in Jerusalem: A Michael Ohayon Mystery (Michael Ohayon Mysteries)
A Woman in Jerusalem

ASIN: 0060995084

Customer Reviews:

Witty, perceptive, and full of atmosphere.......2007-06-18

This is Batya Gur's best book in my opinion. The atmosphere and locale are wonderfully well-drawn, as are the characters. This book truly communicates a time and place. The tensions and dilemmas of life in Israel at that time, the histories that each of the characters bring with them to the story are rich and convincing.

A good detective read.......2005-10-24

Just sent this novel to some shrink friends. As usual, the author offers crisp narrative (well rendered by a supple translation), a panorama of vivdly drawn characters, a strong sense of time and place (O Jerusalem!), and a plot of decent complication. As well, there are the author's usual faults: a somewhat pretentious detailing of the rituals and nomenclature of a heuristic community; and, as with all women authors (yes!!) of detective stories, she adores her hero, who is much too good to be true (see, for example, Cmndr Dalgliesh or Lord Peter or Marshal Guarnaccia or Commisario Brunetti, etc., etc; is Mr Darcy the prototype Ms hero?). The author offers a novel's eye-view of upper-middle-class, cosmopolitan Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Sharply written, this novel aims, patently, to instruct as well as to entertain. As usual, with the latter, the author succeeds.

Analyzing a murder.......2001-07-16

When Shlomo Gold finds his mentor well known psycho analyst Eva Neidorf, dead early one Saturday morning in Jerusalem, detective Michael Ohayon begins his search for the murderer. Batya Gur meticulously lays out the clues while providing the reader with information about Freudian psychoanalysis.

Gur's writing is not the fast paced mystery that some prefer, it slowly draws the reader to the conclusion. providing little steps along the way. She does give away the culprit before the end of the book and the mystery that remains is how Michael Ohayon will manage to snare the murderer. Gur's use of the setting and background information regarding Freudian psychology deftly adds to the interest of this book.

Michael Ohayon is an interesting detective. He is a troubled, thoughtful man who could use some psychoanalysis himself. Ohayon is a complex creature who has the feel for solving crimes.

This book is to be recommended especially to those who enjoy psychology and who have at least some background in the Freudian technique. Those readers who prefer fast paced reading should avoid the Saturday Morning Murder.

294 Pages of Mind Numbing Prose.......2001-06-01

I admire anyone who can write a novel. I greatly admire anyone who can get a novel published. In the case of this book, I admire myself for reading this novel, to the end, no less! The beginning would have you believe that something, anything is going to happen, and it does! A woman is murdered. The mystery here does not lie in finding out who murdered her, but in when the author intends to acknowledge that she is writing a murder mystery. In page after page, after page . . . one reads of the training involved in becoming a traditional Freudian psychoanalyst. When the book finally, and agonizingly slowly, wends its way back to fiction, you no longer care who was killed, who killed her, or why. You think of her demise as a blessed release. As my captioned title implies, the entire world in which these people live and work is so incredibly mind numbing that I am surprised that they all haven't either killed each other or committed suicide long before the author conceived the plot. I finished this novel as a test of superhuman will power, akin to losing 100 pounds or kicking a heroin addiction. If, however, I can save one fellow human being from having to read this book, my life will not have been lived in vain.

Intelligent Murder Mystery.......2001-02-08

I always enjoy a good who-dunnnit, and "Saturday Morning Murder" was certainly enjoyable and well written.

The main character and investigator, Michael Ohayon, isn't your usual take-charge and hunt-'em-down police detective. He takes a more intellectual approach to investigating the murder of a prominent Psychoanalytic Institute's most respected member. The reader can see the obvious (and in this case, ironic) parallels between psychoanalysis and police investigation. The depth to which the author is able to illuminate the art of psychotherapy and how its unique conditions contribute to the mystery of this murder is also fascinating and makes this story more than just your average murder mystery.

This could be thought of as a thinking person's mystery -- there's very little gore or lurid descriptions of crime scenes, and no violent confrontational scenes you might find in Patricia Cornwell's or Jonathan Kellerman's writing. The horror of the crime and the necessity of figuring out who committed it is no less compelling, however. The book takes a slow start, introducing the characters in a philosophical/analytical style, but the complexity of the case and the implications of "whodunnit" were more than interesting enough to draw me in until the last page.

Books:

Books