Lavie Tidhar Books in Order

As archangels are murdered decades after their arrival on Earth, British intelligence agent Killarney searches for a missing cryptographer. Pursued across Europe toward Siberia, she confronts human evil and disturbing visions that threaten her understanding of the world.

Four linked stories follow a vampire, a shapeshifter, and a rabbi through supernatural conflicts rooted in Jewish tradition. Vengeful angels, Nazi werewolves, and visions of an African Jewish homeland challenge them before a caper brings their paths together.

Sixteen stories by writers from around the world explore spirits, technological change, memory, and journeys beyond ordinary space. This edited anthology brings contrasting cultural perspectives to speculative fiction, with characters confronting haunting pasts and unfamiliar futures.

Violent whirlwinds tear through Tel Aviv, leaving a filmmaker, a yeshiva student, and a disturbed fireman struggling to survive. An uncanny mountain rises amid the devastation as the isolated city confronts rumours of redemption and an approaching messiah.

Milady de Winter investigates an apparently impossible murder on the Rue Morgue in an alternate nineteenth century. Pursuing a ghostly serial killer takes her through Paris's catacombs and toward the New World, where further dangers await.

On Heven, a peaceful planet settled by Melanesians from Earth, Kal dreams of flight despite its absolute prohibition. His determination to discover what the ever-present clouds conceal brings him into conflict with ancient secrets and potentially fatal consequences.

The three wise men of the Nativity become the three companions from Journey to the West in this reimagining of Jesus’s story. Biblical tradition and Chinese myth meet as familiar religious figures embark on an unexpected shared adventure.

In an alternate nineteenth century, a shadowy assassin uses books as weapons. When the Bookman's schemes kill the woman Orphan loves, the young man with a mysterious past undertakes a desperate quest to bring her back.

Gunslinger Gorel seeks a magical mirror that might reveal how to return to his lost homeland. An uneasy alliance with a spy and a thief draws him into divine rivalries, murder, and a would-be conqueror's schemes.

In a world without global terrorism, private detective Joe is hired to locate an obscure writer of Osama bin Laden adventure novels. His international search exposes strange refugees and forces him to question his identity and reality.

Jimmy dreams of becoming an astronaut and traveling to the moon, but Tourette’s syndrome makes his words difficult to control. Bullied at school, he struggles with the power those involuntary words hold over his life and hopes.

This edited anthology gathers international speculative stories about alien expeditions, secret superheroes, revived revolutionaries, and unsettling futures. Writers across Africa, Latin America, Europe, and beyond explore horror, fantasy, and science fiction through varied cultural settings and perspectives.

After Mycroft Holmes is murdered, retired operative Smith investigates a conspiracy threatening the world. Lucy Westerna's discovery of a strange object and Harry Houdini's dangerous predicament converge with his inquiry in an alternate Victorian landscape of secrets.

Few dragons remain, yet many people believe they are dragons, wish to become them, or remember being them. This urban fantasy explores the uncertain boundary between those claims and genuine kinship with creatures whose presence is increasingly rare.

A visitor from the future offers Roosevelt help before Pearl Harbor, while an assassination attempt entwines three lives on Mars. The mystery of its elusive target leads toward remote mountains where digital intelligences pursue a dream of the stars.

Fogg and Oblivion spent decades serving Britain before a secret in postwar Berlin separated them. Recalled to the Retirement Bureau, the former friends must revisit their wartime actions and confront the hidden costs of their extraordinary service.

In an alternate 1939 London, disgraced exile Wolf works as a private detective and accepts a Jewish heiress's case. Elsewhere, imprisoned former pulp writer Shomer dreams of this other world as an escape from Auschwitz.

Five stories follow Gorel of Goliris, a gunslinger and addict searching for the homeland sorcery denied him. Adventures before and after his encounter with the pot-bellied god bring him among mercenaries, ghosts, necromancers, and dangerous deities.

A young woman buys a new phone at her local shopping mall, unaware that the purchase is a disastrous mistake. This short horror story follows the consequences as an ordinary device becomes the source of a terrifying fate.

Returning wounded from the Boer War, Jane Eyre joins Irene Adler in a secret struggle against Ayesha. With London’s underworld under threat and Madame Curie’s invention at stake, Adler assembles extraordinary women to protect an empire facing destruction.

Edited by Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene, this anthology brings Jewish characters and traditions into encounters with extraterrestrials. Its stories range from comic invasions to more unsettling confrontations, examining faith and identity through speculative fiction.

This omnibus combines the anthologies Jews vs Aliens and Jews vs Zombies, edited by Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene. Contributors explore Jewish encounters with extraterrestrials and the undead in stories ranging from humorous adventures to darker speculation.

Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene assemble stories about Jewish encounters with the living dead. Contributors approach the premise through humour, horror, and speculative fiction, connecting zombie narratives with questions of faith, tradition, community, and survival.

Lavie Tidhar and Shimon Adaf discuss the fantastic, their contrasting childhoods, and writing about Israel, Palestine, Judaism, and the Holocaust. Two accompanying stories extend the conversation into fiction, with each author appearing in the other's tale.

Boris Chong returns from Mars to the diverse neighbourhood beneath Tel Aviv's space station. Family illness, unusual children, damaged cyborgs, and a hunted data-vampire draw him into interconnected lives shaped by humanity's evolving relationship with machines.

Passengers with little to lose or a powerful longing for space head toward Mars in cheap, single-person spacecraft on one-way journeys. Their exchanged messages connect the traveling swarm and reach those left behind, revealing lives shaped by irreversible departure.

In a universe governed by Jewish religious authorities, an enforcer travels to a remote planet on assignment. There he encounters an android whose influence unsettles his convictions, forcing him to reconsider the moral certainty behind his work.

Twelve-year-old detective Nelle Faulkner works in a city that has outlawed sweets. A candy gangster hires her to find a missing teddy bear, but his disappearance pulls her into a dangerous investigation of the forbidden trade.

Gunther Sloam arrives in Nazi-occupied London searching for an old lover, only to find her dead and himself accused. Pursued by the British Gestapo, he navigates lies, blackmail, and criminal conspiracies while struggling to stay alive long enough for answers.

Pulp writer Lior Tirosh returns to Palestina, a Jewish state in East Africa, and searches for his missing niece. Security agents pursue him as political unrest and apparent conspiracies reveal fractures between incompatible versions of reality.

A shopkeeper in Yiwu earns his living selling tickets for a lottery that promises winners their heart’s desire. When a ticket wins, the apparent fulfillment of a dream reveals unexpected mysteries beyond anything his routine business prepared him to face.

Immortal artificial intelligences rely on physical isolation and disconnected human guards to protect themselves from attack. A young woman trained to fight and die serves that purpose with her cohort, but unforeseen events in Xanadu threaten their security arrangements.

After Rome's departure, Arthur pursues power in a fractured Britain where armed men fight over civilization's remains. This reworking of the legend follows violent ambitions and supernatural threats beneath the stories used to justify conquest.

Wandering vampire judge Dee enforces laws intended to protect his kind's survival, accompanied by the mortal Jonathan. A new case tests the boundaries of his authority and the principles governing his roles as investigator, judge, and executioner.

A message from vanished New Atlantis sends Mai on a difficult journey through a transformed world. Ruined cities, a solitary robot, strange islands, and a prison beneath old London lie along her route toward the drowned isles.

Claire has inherited her father's card-playing talent but wants to become a nun instead. When her convent faces financial ruin, she enters an international poker tournament, bringing her unwanted family skills into conflict with her religious calling.

Young private detective Nelle Faulkner investigates a missing teddy bear in a city where candy is illegal. Her client's disappearance leads into the criminal sweets trade, where smugglers, secret deals, and violence threaten her and her friends.

A Parisian party turns into a criminal investigation for vampire judge Dee. Every guest becomes a suspect, including the judge, leaving him to unravel what happened while navigating an unusually uncomfortable position within his own inquiry.

Judge Dee investigates the murder of vampire Count Werdenfels at his Bavarian castle. Three people proudly claim responsibility, forcing the travelling judge and his mortal companion Jonathan to untangle competing confessions before deciding where guilt belongs.

With his son lying in a hospital bed, a desperate father enters the fantastical Escapement as the Stranger. He searches for a healing flower beyond the Mountains of Darkness, crossing a surreal landscape inhabited by clowns and wandering statues.

In a reimagined Nottingham, Jewish Rebecca seeks power while her friend Birdie tries to escape the forest through faith. Sheriffs battle recurring Hoods, and strange schemes reshape the legends surrounding the outlaw known as the Man in Green.

Five darkly comic stories return to Wolf, an alternate-history Hitler reduced to working as a private detective in 1930s London. Blackmail, murder, theft, and encounters with former comrades expose further humiliations in his diminished life.

Accused over the loss of a valuable manuscript, Judge Dee must stand trial before fellow vampires. As an unknown killer murders members of the gathering, the usual investigator becomes a defendant caught within a widening mystery.

In the futuristic desert city of Neom, a robot searching for lost love unearths a mysterious golden man. As an orphan seeks passage off-world and a dangerous visitor arrives, their converging lives threaten to change the city’s future.

Fleeing a burning Paris, Judge Dee and Jonathan join seven vampires travelling toward England. Their hoped-for safety disappears when someone starts murdering their companions, drawing the judge into a mystery within the escaping group.

After surviving Nazi persecution, Ruth helps build a kibbutz in Palestine, determined to create a shared homeland. Across four generations, her family struggles to preserve its land and bonds as forbidden love, revenge, secrets, and murder erode that founding dream.

When her husband disappears, mathematician Delia seeks a book dealer’s help finding a dangerous novel that vanishes after reading. A determined mobster pursues the same book, whose notorious author may have uncovered cosmic truth or constructed an elaborate fraud.

A nameless bounty hunter in Ottoman Jerusalem and a police detective facing the British withdrawal from Palestine pursue separate fugitives. Their investigations draw them into a deadly search for the lost treasures of the Second Temple, decades apart.

Hitwomen, bagmen, actors, and amateur investigators confront violence and concealed motives in this collection of crime stories. Moving between Tel Aviv, Hollywood, the South Pacific, and elsewhere, the tales explore people trapped by dangerous choices and hidden histories.

Six interconnected lives follow a family’s inheritance across continents and generations, from a guano merchant in South America to a photographer fleeing Ireland aboard the Titanic. Each seeks a future beyond the burdens of blood and history.

Vampire magistrate Judge Dee and his hungry human assistant Jonathan travel through medieval Europe solving crimes among the undead. As their investigations draw them toward London, Jonathan faces questions about his future alongside an immortal whose companions regard him as food.