The Moon Taker

There's trouble afoot in Regency London's Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimes-until wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair: General Well'ngone and the Earl of Gravel Lane, the leaders of a gang of young Jewish pickpockets. In this third volume of the Jewish Regency Mystery Series, General Well'ngone and the Earl of Gravel Lane set out to discover who murdered a colleague of theirs in the secondhand linen trade. Their quest takes them from their East End slum to an elegant country house where a group of distinguished astronomers are meeting - one of whom has a secret as dark as the night sky. Libi Astaire is the author of the award-winning Jewish Regency Mystery Series, a historical mystery series about Regency London's Jewish community.

Her other books include: Terra Incognita, a novel about Spanish villagers who discover they are descended from Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages; The Banished Heart, a novel about Shakespeare's writing of The Merchant of Venice; Day Trips to Jewish History, a volume of essays about some lesser known areas of Jewish history; and several volumes of Chassidic tales. She lives in Jerusalem, Israel.