Dror Mishani is an Israeli crime novelist, translator and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction. Mishani was born in Holon, and he now lives with his wife and two children in Tel Aviv.
His series of crime fiction, featuring police inspector Avraham Avraham, was first published in Hebrew in 2011 and has been translated to over 15 languages, including English, Swedish and German.
The first novel in the series, The Missing File, was short-listed for the 2013 CWA International Dagger award and won the Martin Beck Award, for the best translated crime novel in Sweden. Mishani's second novel, A Possibility of Violence, was the first crime novel on Sapir prize's (Israeli Booker) shortlist and won the Berenstein prize for best Hebrew novel of the year. The third novel in the series, The Man Who Wanted to Know, was published in Hebrew in May 2015. In 2018, film director Erick Zonca took his novel The Missing File as a basis for his film Fleuve noir [Black Tide].
