Liad Shoham

An elderly woman witnesses a rape as she scans the street with her high-powered binoculars, but at first, she decides not to get involved. The victim’s father helps identify a suspect named Ziv Nevo, and Detective Eli Nahum believes he has an easy case. Nevo has been found at the crime scene with no plausible explanation. He is innocent of the rape, but his real reason for being in the neighborhood is even worse. He is—well, it has to do with the Mafia. Detective Nahum is experienced, confident and careless, ready to take shortcuts and get the case over with. Under interrogation, Nevo is afraid to explain what he was doing at night in a strange neighborhood. In fact, he thinks he’s been caught for what he was really doing. Once he caves and admits he did it, he finally learns what “it” is. His protestation that he didn't rape anyone can’t keep him out of prison. Meanwhile, Nahum gets caught carrying on an affair with a woman in the chief’s office. Nahum’s career and his marriage collapse at about the same time he realizes what shoddy police work he has done. The good news? Now he has plenty of time to exonerate Nevo, learn his secret and—perhaps hardest of all—rebuild his own marriage. What begins as a crime thriller becomes the story of a detective’s search for redemption. This book marks the author’s U.S. debut. Let’s hope he gives us many more stories like it.

To find her way through the maze of intrigue she is forced to enlist the help of Ido Dolev, a cynical, sharp political consultant who drives her crazy but also makes her feel alive. Anat struggles with her intense attraction to Ido, with the police’s indifference and particularly with herself.

Anat and Ido are in a race against time. Together they uncover the truth simmering behind Petach Tikvah’s sleepy streets, the cruel power struggles hiding within the well-kept suburbs, the bubbling corruption that runs through the seemingly serene city. In “Blood Oranges” Liad Shoham presents a twisty tumultuous plot, alive with good homes, crime families, human failings and fatal betrayals. With excellent timing and shrewd talent, Shoham penetrates the heart of calm and content Israeli bourgeois, exposing its hidden secrets.

On a cold winter day, the brutal murder of the local principal shakes Gofna, a little solitary religious settlement in the Binyamin mountains. Yoav, the son of the settlement's rabbi and spiritual leader, is taking a leave of absence from his training for the Israeli Security Agency ("Shabak") to introduce Anat, his new girlfriend, to his parents. But Inspector Anat Nachmias is not his partner, but a police detective he’s met only a few days earlier, when they were both tasked with the undercover investigation of the principal's murder. Yoav and Anat now have just forty eight hours to prove the murder was not an act of terrorism before the entire area ignites. But the two find out that nothing is as it appears and tension rises between Yoav, his family and the community he left behind, while Anat and Yoav become ever closer. As the outside temperatures drop, a sudden snow storm blocks the roads and electricity fails, Yoav and Anat find themselves alone, facing a suspicious community as their cover is blown.

Officer Anat Nachmias has never been asked to lead an investigation until she is assigned to Michal's case. Determined not to let her superiors—or Michal—down, she resolves to leave no avenue unexplored. But the deeper Anat delves into Michal's activism, the more she is convinced that the working theory is wrong, especially when she can't believe a word of the young African man who soon confesses to the crime. What she does believe is that Michal, a petite, opinionated woman, got herself involved in something much bigger, and far more dangerous, than she could handle.

Joined by Michal's clumsy but charming boss, Itai, Anat descends into a shadowy, amoral underworld where war victims and criminals, angels and demons, idealists and cynics, aid organizations and criminal syndicates intersect—and the ruthless prey on the weak. What she discovers will shock the city and set in motion events that will have dramatic, far-reaching consequences.

"The writer is a lawyer by profession – but also made a serious inquiry that serves the plot meticulously… Shoham has a great sense of humor… In his best moments he reminds me the undisputed king of the crime novel today - John Grisham."

"Israeli author Shoham follows his U.S. debut, 2013’s Lineup, with another triumph, a crime novel that shares characters with the earlier book. When Michal Poleg, an activist for the rights of illegal African immigrants, is found murdered in her Tel Aviv apartment, strong evidence implicates one of the very people she had been helping, Gabriel Takela, who was seen fleeing her home right after the murder. Unwilling to go along with the easy answer to the case, Insp. Anat Nachmias digs deeper and antagonizes her superiors, who hope to wrap things up quickly. Anat’s investigation and its effects on others’ lives are shown from the nuanced perspectives of a state prosecutor, who’s afraid that he may have killed his former lover without remembering the act, and an accountant working for a crime lord who has developed a new way to take advantage of the African community. The author movingly depicts the plight of African immigrants in Israel without being heavy-handed".

Shoham has been a member of the Israeli Bar Association since 1997. He still works as an attorney and is a partner in the law firm Golan, Goldschmidt & Co. As an attorney Shoham specializes in administrative and commercial law.

Liad Shoham (born 1971) is an Israeli writer and lawyer. He is Israel's leading thriller writer. dubbed the Israeli John Grisham.