Featured Interview With Jonathan Dunsky
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Tel Aviv in 1978 and grew up in a suburb of Jerusalem. Later I lived in a number of cities in Israel, spent a few years in Amsterdam, and then returned to Israel where I now live with my wife and two boys.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve always been a reader. I remember reading Enid Blyton novels by the bushel as a child, and right around my thirteenth birthday, I discovered Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Robert Silverberg and other Science-fiction, fantasy, and horror writers, and spent a few years devouring a massive number of books in those genres. I wrote my first novel when I was eighteen. It was terrible. Then I took an eighteen-year-long break before writing my first two published novels, The Dead Sister and The Auschwitz Violinist in the summer of 2015.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
These days I read mostly crime novels and non-fiction work. My favorite novelists include Lawrence Block, Donald E. Westlake, and Ross Thomas. I also recently read a few excellent books by Christa Faust, Elmore Leonard, and Reed Farrel Coleman.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest novel is called Ten Years Gone, the first in a three-book-long-and-counting series of mystery novels taking place in the early days of the State of Israel and featuring Holocaust survivor and private investigator Adam Lapid.
Ten Years Gone is the third published novel in the series, but the first in chronological order. It takes place in 1949, and the story revolves around the search for a boy who’s been missing for ten years, after his mother, a German Jew, entrusted him to a friend who was fleeing Germany to Israel in 1939.
The character of Adam Lapid is unlike any I’d come across in the mystery genre. Adam is a survivor of Auschwitz, a former Nazi hunter and soldier, and someone who hates evil with a vengeance. As one Amazon reviewer wrote: “Adam is an honest and admirable character. I wish he was real so I could know him.”
I spent a number of months on Ten Years Gone as the plot is more complex than those of my previous novels, with more twists and turns. It took a while for the story to become clear in my head. I’m very happy with the end result. I believe that anyone who likes mystery novels, especially private investigator novels, will have a blast with Ten Years Gone.
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