D. A. Mishani

Dror. A. Mishani (born in 1975) is an Israeli crime writer and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction. His crime series, featuring police inspector Avraham Avraham, was first published in Hebrew in 2011 and is translated to more than 15 languages. The first novel in the series, "The Missing File", was shortlisted in 2013 to the CWA International dagger award and the Grand Prix de Litterature policiere, and won the prestigious Martin Beck award (for best crime novel translated to Swedish) and the Grand Prix du meilleur polar de lecteurs des Points in France. The second novel in the series, "A Possibility of Violence", won the prestigious Bernstein prize for best Israeli novel in 2014.

Dror. A. Mishani lives with his wife and two children in Tel Aviv and teaches in Tel Aviv University.