One Before Last
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Eli is a translator. His wife has died and his children have fled the nest, and it seems to him that the best times of his life have already passed.
That is until a friend introduces him to a cellist called Lia. She's surprising, intriguing, and as tender bonds of unexpected love form, the promise of fresh beginnings brings high stakes, and a sense of renewal too.
Lia has one other passion in her life apart from her music; her dog. She entrusts Eli to look after him while she is on tour, but he makes a catastrophically careless mistake that puts their relationship in danger. Faced with admitting the truth which could drive Lia away forever, Eli decides to hide from her about what really happened. This lie will start to suffocate him. And soon, a canny police detective with a penchant for Simenon notices inconsistencies in his story, and begins to close in.
One Before Last is a love story that spirals into something else entirely, a sharp moral reckoning with the stories we tell to hide from reality.
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About the author
D. A. Mishani is a best-selling crime writer, screenwriter and literary scholar, specializing in the history of crime fiction. His crime novels have been translated into more than twenty languages, made into films and TV series, shortlisted for the CWA international dagger award and the Grand Prix de Litterature Policliere and won the prestigious Martin Beck award for best crime novel translated to Swedish and the Grand Prix du meilleur Polar de lecteurs de Points. He lives in Tel Aviv and writes full time.
Jessica Cohen is a highly acclaimed translator of Hebrew literature, including books by David Grossman and Amos Oz, and won the Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Grossman's A Horse Walks into a Bar. She lives in Denver, Colorado.
